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Russia Threatens the Czechs

Here's the definition of bad diplomacy: One country tells another country to defer a national security question until the election in a third country has taken place.

"We say it will be a big mistake by the Czech government to put this radar site on Czech territory," said Yuri Baluyevsky, the Russian military chief of staff, after meeting the Czech deputy defense minister, Martin Bartak.

He said the Czech Republic should hold off making a decision until after the U.S. presidential election, scheduled to take place in late 2008. Incumbent George W. Bush will not be running.

I recently wrote a short history of the Estonian cyberwar for Reason; the rhetoric from Moscow leading up to that tank-less invasion was the same. Time to upgrade those firewalls in Prague.

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