Trump hurt Nato’s credibility more in past weeks than Putin managed in years, says Czech president – Europe live

Petr Pavel, a former senior Nato general, says it is unfair to expect defensive alliance to ‘automatically help in wars waged outside its territory’ 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”.