READERS OPINION ON TODAY`S CHAOS

By Anonymous reader - Human Synthesis-12 December 2025

Wow.. Wow. – María Machado and the Nobel Peace Prize, or whatever it’s supposed to represent.

Here, too, we are apparently expected to pick a side: either you’re for or against. Right or left. Trump, Milei, or Spain.And what on earth actually happened to the Nobel Peace Prize? Nothing new. We might as well call it “Santa’s Annual Prize,” since the award more or less coincides with Santa’s birthday, or something along those lines.

María Machado works for the World Economic Forum. She is literally Venezuela’s representative at the Davos summit every year, and also participates in a number of regular global elite gatherings – the kind of organizations one would usually avoid. Of course she was selected. Her comings and goings from Venezuela are far less dramatic than what is portrayed.It’s far more difficult for a family with children to get out of Norway after a conflict with the municipality, did you know that?

There is significant poverty in Venezuela, a country that is simultaneously an oil nation. Naturally, things could have looked different – like in Qatar or Saudi Arabia. But neither of those countries are democracies we normally like to compare ourselves with, even though they don’t receive the same criticism. You know why: we trade with them, and we recognize them well enough from the corridors.

Børge Brende has met them often in Davos. Machado is presented as a temporary evil on the way to something better. In that case, Maduro stands as a living example of what happens when the left is allowed to govern without counterbalance from the right. Or, to put it another way: Amrit Pernille Kaur and Sofia Rana’s dream society in practice – yet another failed, collapsed communist project.

Something is rotten in Denmark, but this competition is clearly a marathon without historical parallel, and no one knows where the EU will be in ten years, squeezed behind Alibaba’s 44 thieves (the oligarchs) and their thousand Orwell-inspired laws.

Maybe it will become “boots on the ground” for minerals in Ukraine, who knows. Maybe a tripling of the number of people arrested for comments online. Maybe you’ll have to be 16 years old to participate in public debate, and log in with BankID to express yourself. Maybe vacation travel will be limited depending on the steak you ate last weekend.

And how many times do you really have to pay tax on the sugar and meat you bought at Rema or Lidl? Only the gods know.Sure – some will obviously blame Western sanctions. But there are several countries that circumvent sanctions in a way that at least ensures children receive schooling and a bed instead of a life in brothels and drug trafficking along the streets.

And what about the CIA and Pentagon’s decades-long financing of cartels and shady industries, as every Hollywood version of reality reminds us? Johnny Depp, Snowfall on HBO – the variations are endless. Most people have a vague memory of the articles from the 80s and 90s about the CIA and Pentagon that ended in internal conflicts, where each side supported different cartels, with codenames taken from some spy’s mishap in an office building in the US.The African American population in cities like Chicago and Baltimore still has vivid memories of how South American drugs flooded in thanks to “Cobra,” ahem – the CIA.

The story of “narco-boats” starts to crack when they’re stopped 2,000 kilometers from the US coast. Especially when one knows that the American drug epidemic doesn’t start in the jungles of South America, but in laboratories in Utah or Minnesota, where the real addiction is established.

The substances on the street eventually become just a supplement for those who can no longer afford to maintain the life of a soccer mom with extreme ADHD and Adderall, or the perpetually absent father on business trips with OxyContin in his luggage. Let’s not pretend otherwise. It’s stupid and disrespectful.

There are, however, real cases: In July 2024, a “go fast” fishing boat was stopped off Puerto Rico with a 4,500-liter fuel tank and 1,200 kilos of cocaine, en route from Venezuela. The year before, a similar boat with a 15,000-liter tank and 900 kilos of cocaine. Seizures from Venezuela today make up about 5–10 percent of smuggling. Compared to the tons of OxyContin and Adderall sold legally, however, it’s insignificant.

At the same time, I understand the priorities. These countries are like the Wild West for players like Warren Buffett, Alexander Soros, and those who meet behind.

Enough said, but THINK !!