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The Day The Nobel Died: Obama, DEI, And The Collapse Of Merit


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The Nobel Peace Prize once meant something. For most of the 20th century, it functioned as a global marker of moral achievement, an international accolade reserved for those who, through sacrifice and diplomacy, bent history toward peace. Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Schweitzer, and the International Red Cross did not receive their laurels because they looked or spoke a certain way, nor because they offered vague gestures toward hope. They earned them by altering the course of conflict and history. The same cannot be said for Barack Obama, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize a mere eleven days into his presidency. It is this episode, an award based not on actions but identity, not on accomplishment but anticipation, that marks the definitive DEI conquest of what was once the highest secular moral honor on Earth.

Let us be precise. Obama had done nothing when he received the prize. He had been in office for just over a week. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in its public justification, cited his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” This, of course, refers to no act. It refers to rhetoric, a mood, a spirit, a branding. Even Obama himself admitted, rather sheepishly, that he had not “deserved” it, framing the award as a “call to action.” A call, we might add, for which there was no apparent need until the committee answered it.

Critics, including the Nobel Committee’s own former secretary, Geir Lundestad, later acknowledged the misstep. In his 2015 memoir, Lundestad admitted that the award had not achieved its goal and had instead provoked skepticism, even among Obama’s supporters. A Gallup poll taken shortly after the announcement showed that 61% of Americans believed the award was undeserved. The committee was not honoring peace, it was manufacturing it through the lens of identity and hope, two currencies central to the modern DEI movement. The prize, historically anchored in tangible outcomes, was now drifting in the subjective currents of aspirational politics.

This moment matters not just because it was absurd, but because it marked the end of the Nobel Peace Prize as a serious institution. Having crossed the Rubicon, the committee continued its descent into abstraction, symbolism, and ideological virtue-signaling. In 2012, the prize was given to the European Union, an organization beset by internal economic conflict and external border crises, and hardly a model of peace. The award prompted backlash from former laureates and European citizens alike, many of whom saw it as a nakedly political statement in support of the failing Eurozone experiment.

In 2016, the prize went to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for a peace deal that had just been rejected in a national referendum. In other words, the committee awarded a deal the Colombian people themselves did not want. This is no small irony. The Peace Prize, in this case, was not celebrating peace but defying democracy.

Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia received the prize in 2019 for making peace with Eritrea. But within a year, he was presiding over the brutal Tigray conflict, during which war crimes were alleged on both sides. Ahmed, once a darling of the international community, was now accused of leading one of the worst humanitarian crises of the decade. The Nobel Committee has never revoked a prize.

And why should it? It had already set the precedent in 2009, when it handed the medal to Barack Obama for the crime of being Barack Obama. A man of eloquence, yes, but also a man who presided over 563 drone strikes in non-war zones like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, killing as many as 807 civilians, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. These operations, many of them carried out in secret, stained his presidency with a blood not easily scrubbed by lofty speeches. The expansion of America’s covert war machine under Obama further destabilized regions already on the edge and inflamed anti-American sentiment that persists today. This, too, is part of his legacy.

Consider also that Obama’s signature foreign policy promise, to close Guantanamo Bay, remained unfulfilled. His “reset” with Russia ended in Crimea leading to the current war in Ukraine. His Iran deal destabilized allies in the Middle East and funded proxy wars through Tehran’s terror tentacles. Where, then, was the peace?

Now contrast this with the latest news. On June 21, 2025, Pakistan announced its intent to nominate Donald J. Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The reason? His decisive intervention in a rapidly escalating military conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. The ceasefire, publicly announced by Trump on Truth Social, was achieved after 48 hours of diplomacy led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance. It was a real act with measurable consequences. Bloodshed was averted. Stability was restored. This was not the issuance of hope, but the application of leverage and skill.

Now let me be clear: Trump does not need the Nobel Peace Prize. But the prize needs someone like Trump if it hopes to recover a shred of its former dignity. And yet, even if he receives it, it will ring hollow. It will be a medal forged in the fires of politics, warped beyond recognition. The rot began with Obama. The Nobel Committee signaled that race and rhetoric mattered more than outcomes. And the world has noticed.

The deterioration of race relations in the United States under Obama was not a side effect, it was a consequence of his governing philosophy. His administration trafficked in the very kind of identity essentialism that DEI now canonizes. From the beer summit to the Ferguson narrative, Obama chose sides before facts emerged, casting America in a permanently racialized light. His presidency did not heal the racial divide. It institutionalized it. Today, public trust across racial lines is lower than it was in 2008. That is not peace. That is entropy.

So when Pakistan nominates Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, the correct response is not applause, but irony. Of course he deserves it. But what does it mean anymore? When the prize went from honoring MLK’s courage to celebrating a freshman senator with no record, it forfeited its soul. When it chose political theatre over diplomatic substance, it ceased to be a reward for peace and became a prop in the global performance of progress.

If the Nobel Committee wishes to recover its relevance, it must begin again to anchor its awards in results, not ideology. The damage may be irreversible, but clarity demands the admission: Barack Obama did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. He never did. The committee gave it to him not despite the absence of achievement, but because of it. It was a ceremonial coronation of the DEI worldview, where appearance and aspiration eclipse record and result. In so doing, they did not elevate Obama. They buried the prize.

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Time To Dump Europe


Events over the past months have exposed a very stark divide between the globalist, collectivist, “woke” authorities of Europe and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) patriot movement here in the United States. To be frank, it is almost as if the snide, effete elitists who control the nations of the European continent want to rub our noses in their horror show. 

Let’s be frank.  Europe would be a total basket case without American taxpayers, American troops, and American subservience to their ever more bizarre “culture.” Since Woodrow Wilson first fell for the globalist-line that somehow “the better people” could build a world government free of popular input, the citizens of the United States have been played as fools. Churchill’s constant pushing and cajoling led to the so-called “special relationship” that has come to mean Uncle Sucker picks up the tab, does the dirty work and then allows others to make decisions.

And today, the outdated, “ticking time bomb without a mission” called NATO has become an anchor around the necks of the American people that can only draw us into a war that serves the territorial interests of European elites, not that of the United States.

All of this was made clear when a recent article by Giovanna De Maio and Célia Belin in the publication, Foreign Affairs, appeared entitled Europe’s America Problem. To set the record straight, the magazine is owned and operated by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). CFR has been the leading voice for globalist ambitions since its founding in 1921. It is the voice of the very people the MAGA movement has identified as those working to destroy American sovereignty and submerge us into a swamp.

Europe as advanced by the globalists at CRF, NATO, the Atlantic Council and the European Union (EU) is unalterably opposed to the core principles of the United States.  Even a cursory review shows them to outright enemies of liberty.

  • The suppression of free speech is now rampant.  People in Britain are being jailed for prayer, at least Christian prayer. The government of Germany is moving to outlaw the second largest party in the country in order to eliminate competition, exactly as the Nazis and the Communists did in the not so distant past. 
  • The EU is claiming the right to prosecute citizens outside their nations — the United States or any other non-European country — if that individual publishes something the thought police in Brussels oppose. National laws and sovereignty mean nothing to them.
  • We are admonished that steps to defend and protect the U.S. economy will be regarded as hostile and that efforts at retaliation will be considered.
  • As evidence mounts that the so-called “climate crisis” is at best not true — and more likely will eventually be exposed as a total fraud — Europe is demanding that the United States continue to surrender all its advantages to “international cooperation.” What this means is that the United States refrains from developing the massive energy resources that would give our manufacturing and development a clear advantage so that energy-starved Europe can “compete.” The Foreign Affairs article is blunt — “Europe will need to define its collective interests in the transatlantic partnership, deciding what it wants to protect and what it expects from the United States.” [emphasis added]

“What it expects” from the United States? To paraphrase one of their prominent green-freaks, “How dare they?”

  • Why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars we do not have to defend the borders of Ukraine when we should be defending our own borders? Why? Because Europe couldn’t last a week in combat and demand that we continue to defend them like we have for nearly 80 years. Why should we be afraid of Russia? 

From the end of World War II the entire game for the Europeans has been to soak America. Get us to pay for their defense. Get us to subsidize their economies. Get us to incur the wrath of newly formed nations of Africa, Asia and the Middle East — have them direct their righteous rage at us instead of the Imperial masters who continue to this day to loot the former colonies.

The entire model was stated clearly by the first Secretary-General of NATO in 1952 when Lord Hastings “Pug” Ismay (1887-1965), outlined the entity’s strategic objectives with his famous tripartite formula: “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” No better description of British foreign policy has ever been written for the past 100 years.

A cold-eyed review shows that Europe has near-zero natural resources that America needs. On the other hand, Latin America and Africa are rich in them, they just need to be developed. China has proven to be a less than reliable partner for these nations. We should make the advance.

Europe supplies next to nothing in a military sense. Yes, we have great bases in Italy and Germany. But we only need them to defend Europe. If we could walk away from billions in weapons and a state-of-the-art air base in Afghanistan, why not do it in Europe? Just hand those bases over and let the Europeans fight over them.                      

Politically, who really cares if we get “their votes” at the United Nations or any of the other globalist’ strait jackets. Better to tell those entities to fend for themselves, make our annual blackmail payments contingent on not making us angry, and at the first appropriate moment walk away entirely.

On the “net zero” suicide pact, they need to be told to forget it. The U.S. is going to drill and refine all we can as nuclear plants are built. What they do is up to them but finding sources of energy should be their top priority. Winters can get very cold in much of Europe.

Finally, the perverse culture that has infected us from Europe needs to be returned to sender. The “critical theory” treason of Michel Foucault and his cohorts in academia need to be excised like a tumor. We need nothing of their totalitarian poison. The dedication to family and community so valued in Africa and Latin America are far more vital to the U.S. than anything from the smut-dens of Berlin or Paris.

It is time for renewal in America, a restoration of our values and principles of self-reliance and independence. All we can get from Europe is a drain on our resources and resolve. The rest of the world wants our leadership — not through force of arms as latter-day colonial powers but from a commitment to enduring principles of liberty, a liberty not found anywhere in Europe today. It is time to move on and dump Europe. They are leeches sucking America dry. Time to cut them off.

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