National Security Adviser Tomáš Pojar said in Euro magazine thisweek that Czech soldiers won’t give their lives for a country thatdoesn’t want to defend itself and doesn’t invest into its own defense.Article 5 of the Nato treaty doesn’t specify how we should help amember that is attacked, he said, and the form of assistance will de-pend on the degree to which the attacked country is willing and ableto defend itself. He repeated this at the “Our Security is not a Given”conference yesterday and added that Donald Trump is using sound
logic when he states that U.S. troops wouldn’t help those who don’tthink about their own security and defense. Army Chief of StaffKarel Řehka said six minutes later that Nato members committedthemselves in Vilnius to 2% defense spending as a minimum in conjunction with meeting all other Nato commitments, esp. with regardto defense planning. “Without being concrete,” he said, “I must saywe are far from meeting them.” The obvious question, then, is wheth-er Pojar is pushing a Trump-like view that, taken to its extreme,could end up depriving Czechs of their Nato security guarantee.

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