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”.
Oh, you’re French yourself. Didn’t mean to make this personal, for what it’s worth.
Ditto for the US. Each party gets 50% every election, with the margin swinging predictably based on, like, who’s incumbent and how the economy is. And electoral districts are basically designed to have a set outcome at this point. Trump came to power because he’s popular with the radicals that vote in Republican primaries.
FWIW their system is so much worse than the French one, even if the French one is worse than, like, Norway.
No I’m not French, I’m from Denmark.
Yes in USA it’s worse, because the president of USA has even more extensive powers, and congress isn’t entirely democratic either.
On this we are 100% in agreement.