In 2025, the Economic Society for Westphalia and Lippe (WWL), based in Münster, announced that the International Westphalian Peace Prize for 2026 would go to NATO. This was an unspeakable and genocidal war that devastated large parts of the German lands. The WWL presented the prize for the first time in Münster in 1998, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. Did anyone listen to our former Foreign Minister when she remarked, almost casually, that we were “at war with Russia”? Even those responsible for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize have, not without reason, been accused of belonging to the same system.