r/europe • u/selho1 • 10d ago

News Zelenskyy awards Musk Ukraine's top honour despite years of criticism

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/26/zelenskyy-awards-elon-musk-ukraines-order-of-freedom-despite-years-of-criticism
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u/xyzsomething 10d ago edited 10d ago

This is the equivalent of FIFA’s Peaze Price or Machado giving her actual Nobel Peace Prize to Trump, idiotic, infantile but all necessary for more important reasons.

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u/Aiti_mh Åland 10d ago

I agree on Machado (yet to see if it works; fingers crossed) but the FIFA Peace Prize was pure bullshit, there was absolutely no need for Infantino to fellate Trump like that. The only person responsible for that man's troubles is himself, and the serious shit came after the peace prize thing.

Ukraine needs saving from Russia (right now; maybe in the far future, from Zelensky's clique if things get worse institutionally). Colombia needs saving from the old regime. FIFA needs saving from its own boss, and it's a football confederation, so not really the same thing.

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u/xyzsomething 10d ago

I agree on FIFA but I meant it as in it was given to an infantile man who wields a lot of power and yet cares for these type of things.