Not sure what to make of this item in the Prague Post about Russia reducing it's oil exports to the Czech Republic by 40% in the wake of the CZ government's anti-missile missile treaty with the US. If, in fact, Russia IS trying to punish the Czechs, well, who can blame them? At least they've done it without a slog of rhetoric decrying Prague as part of an Axis of Evil. The argument that Russia doesn't have the right to take punative measures falls a bit flat in the wake of US policy these past 8 years, wouldn't you say? And while i'd like to maintain that withholding resources as a form of coercive politics is unacceptable, that would be hypocritical given my avid support for sanctions against the Zimbabwean and Israeli governments.

More to come on this topic....