Czech president Petr Pavel warned that Donald Trump’s recent comments questioning the role of Nato have damaged the alliance’s credibility more than the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has done in several years.

Pavel, a retired Nato general and former chair of the Nato military committee, also said that Trump’s criticism of the alliance over the Iran war was “to put it mildly, unfair”.

“The moment we begin to question the alliance as a single, united entity, ready to act together and very decisively then, of course, its role is lost,” he warned.

He said that Trump ‘s criticism appeared to miss the fact that Nato is a defence alliance, and “not an alliance that will automatically help in wars waged outside its territory”.

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    Well compared to many of the American billionaires, those Nazis look like saints.

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      Um they are just not loud. Lol. They are still nazis. And nazism is alive and well in germany.

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        Are they undermining healthcare for all? Are they destroying democracy? Are they leading massive campaigns that claim climate change is a hoax? And suppressing scientists that work with it, and the organizations they work in?
        I have never seen anything in Europe that is nearly as bad as for instance the Koch brothers. And the Koch brothers are far from alone. I think we got that established with the Epstein case, that has shown that the rich in USA cooperate towards a common goal, to take ever more power.

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          Kühne literally makes billions from Germany but has his tax residence in Switzerland because he doesn’t think the German government should get his money. Probably still salty about when they stopped his dad, an outspoken nazi party member, from looting Jewish peoples’ property. Which is what made them billionaires in the first place. He of course says nothing happened and they didn’t get rich off genocide while simultaneously refusing to open the company’s wartime archives. Honestly think he’d deny Hitler existed if he could get away with it.

          So maybe they’re not trying to undermine healthcare for all, but they’re evading the taxes that pay for said healthcare while literally trying to downplay the genocide that made their families rich.

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            I have no doubt they are no good, and undermine the societies they make their money on, but there are degrees of evil and there are degrees of insanity.
            And by comparison American billionaires are the worst, and decidedly undermine democracy heavily using their money for greater influence, probably mostly because they are allowed, not because Europeans are better people. But the system in USA celebrating money and sociopathy make Americans worse.

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          Are they destroying democracy?

          Yes! Wtf. How do you think these far right parties are getting popular again?

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            I think AfD is a symptom from the old East Germany, and I think they are supported maybe even created by Russian intelligence, AfD has shown strong support for Russia, and even gathered intelligence for Russia, and worked as Russian agents. AfD is also very anti immigrant. Which is not an interest of billionaires, that generally prefer access to lots of cheap labor.

            I really don’t see how the German far right is explained by German billionaires supporting them.

            So yes WTF indeed are you on about?