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”.
If there’s been no shift in how the US is acting, which seems to be what you’re saying, the rest of the world is just being sensitive, like America’s diplomats are fond of saying. You’re unwittingly advancing the same propaganda line.
People don’t catch up, at most a person can. Old idiots die and new idiots are born, and the total stays the same.
(If you’re trying to break this off, thanks for being pleasant to talk to)