Crowds of protesters jeered at NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after the US-led military bloc was awarded the Westphalian Peace Prize on Thursday. 

The Economic Society for Westphalia and Lippe awarded the prize to commemorate the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years War and legally enshrined the modern concept of the nation-state. 

The Lying Dutchman

Rutte, known among protestors as the ‘Lying Dutchman,’ collected the award in the German city of Munster on Thursday on behalf of the interventionist US-led military bloc. 

Protesters gathered outside Munster Town Hall disagreed. When the Dutchman, the German, and other dignitaries stepped onto the balcony, below which a blue-blazered band played, they were met with chants of ‘murderers’ and ‘blood on your hands’ from the square below.

Gritted their teeth

The unelected NATO boss and the unelectable German chancellor gritted their teeth, smiled, and waved through the boos and whistles.

Forgotten NATO Wars

Wust’s speech did not mention NATO’s bombing campaigns against Serbia in 1995 and 1999, or its bombing and subsequent breaking up of Libya in 2011.

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More recently, NATO exercises on Russia’s Kaliningrad border have been interpreted as reckless provocations by the Kremlin.

NATO War Hawks

The Russian Foreign Ministry reminded NATO leadership this week that Kaliningrad is integral Russian territory, which Moscow is prepared to defend with all its arsenal, including nuclear weapons.

Rutte wants Europe to attack Iran

Less than 24 hours earlier, Rutte declared that NATO’s European members should have attacked Iran on behalf of the US and Israel. ‘Europe was not able to take out the nuclear capability of Iran. We couldn’t. We didn’t have the capabilities. In ten years, we can and we should, not the Americans,’ he said at a Euronews summit in Brussels.

Merz Lies

Merz took the opportunity to swipe at his political rivals too, falsely claiming the AfD, currently Germany’s most popular political party, is ‘Russian-backed.’  

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