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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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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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.