Vladimir Plesl writes in Pravo that the surprise at the Russian reaction to Georgian U.S.
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Germany Rally But Croatia Hang on to Celebrate Crucial 2-1 Win ... President Mikhail Shaakashvili's steps and shouting about Russian brutality in the Caucasus look like a lesson in a course of hypocrisy for the advanced, though he says he is not all happy about the Kremlin's tank reaction. But what can be expected now that "Kosovo stolen from Serbia is a simple fact. The U.S. shield in central Europe is also almost a fait accompli. Preparations of Georgia and Ukraine for the Alliance registered partnership continue - what reason for 'restraint' should Moscow have?" Plesl writes. "Who will now punish whom? In the present interconnected, dependent and fragile world such threats arouse the impression of sadomasochist theatre: it will hurt all," Plesl writes. The recognition of Kosovo has to a certain degree affected the European Union because not all of its members have recognised its independence. The Russian solution is, however, even more far-reaching," Jiri Hanak writes elsewhere in Pravo. It has changed the security situation in Europe, but not for the better, Hanak writes. He says it was not by chance that four days after the Russian invasion of Georgia, the United States agreed with providing Patriot missiles to Poland though it was reluctant to do so for two years, and the drawn-out Polish-U.S. negotiations on the stationing of a part of the anti-missile shield in Poland were suddenly successfully completed. Russia is doing in Georgia what it pleases, and Europeans talk and talk as usual, Bohumil Dolezal writes in Lidove noinvy. The role of European arbitrators, starting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to german Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to keep an eye particularly on the Americans. "Would not it be better to clearly tell the Georgians 'we have sold you. We have a rich tradition and well developed methods in this respect,'" Dolezal writes. The Polish agreement with the stationing of ten interceptor missiles on Polish territory this week is a challenge to the Czech government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, Zbynek Petracek writes elsewhere in Lidove noviny. He writes that Topolanek's government can no longer say Czechs must wait "for the Poles joining" the U.S. anti-missile project in Central Europe. The government itself must push the signed treaty on the U.S. radar to be stationed on Czech soil within the project through the Chamber of Deputies, Petracek writes. He writes the roles may change now, after months during which the Czechs believed they are doing better that the Poles. "We have often had problems with comprehending the Poles...How could they bargain with the Americans about an offer that one does not turn down?...Now, however, we could seethe Polish reaction to the signal that Russia sent out from Georgia. Will we comprehend the signal just as the Poles have comprehended it?" Petracek asks in conclusion.
(Ceske Noviny)
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