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Bobošíková pulled out: Czech planes for Ukraine. Serious questions

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Moderator Jana Bobošíková drew attention to the circumstances of the delivery of ten Czech ALTO NG training aircraft to Ukraine in her program on the Verox.cz platform. According to her, while the public debate focused on the statements of President Petr Pavel or the 140 million crowns for the PURL initiative, the aircraft delivery project itself took place almost without public discussion. The broadcast included a number of questions directed at the government and state institutions.

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The tyranny of good intentions

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Good intentions are not enough in politics. A politician who intoxicates his own moral purity but refuses to take responsibility for the consequences of his actions easily becomes more dangerous than a cynic. Max Weber warned that politics is not the preaching of goodness, but the work of power, responsibility and reality. It is the forgetting of this truth that feeds the frustration, polarization and radicalization of society today.

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Is NATO the only possible way?

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For decades, we were led to believe that NATO membership is the only possible guarantee of Czech security. But what if the very rules of the game change?

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The most dangerous prison is the one we cannot see

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History is not a pre-written script. Nevertheless, politicians, the media and various ideologies often convince us that the current state is the only possible one. From NATO to interpretation of the Second World War to relations between states, the same question leads: where does reality end and propaganda begin?

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Who really rules the Czech Republic?

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The prime minister has an office. Ministers have powers. Parliament has a majority. Nevertheless, the question arises more and more often whether the real power does not lie elsewhere. In the intelligence services, security apparatus, bureaucracy, media or networks of influence. Machiavelli had already warned against a similar development.

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