Manufacturing Consent For War With Venezuela

It is no secret that Donald J. Trump, head of the American Empire, desperately wanted the Nobel Peace Prize. For months, he had been lobbying for it, presenting himself as a peacemaker. A “humanitarian who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will”. His lust for the prize, driven at least in part by the fact that Barack Obama won it in 2009, led Pakistan’s government to publicly nominate him in June as a means of gratifying his ego. And the recent Gaza ceasefire deal he brokered, mere days before the award was to be announced, bolstered speculation that Trump might actually win the award. Perhaps that is why, when the Nobel Committee named María Corina Machado the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, swaths of liberals, the anti-Trump crowd, and even some leftists celebrated. But make no mistake: while this may be a personal failure for its head, it is, unmistakably, a win for the American Empire itself.

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