Why isn’t the West standing up for the Czech Republic?

The discovery by Czech intelligence services that a bombing of an ammunitions and weapons depot in 2014 that killed two people was carried out by the same Russian agents responsible for Sergei Skripal’s poisoning in 2018 is the latest act in the ongoing drama between the Kremlin and the West – one that has been intensified by the Czech President’s inability to blame Russia for the attack, and the lack of allied support for the Czech Republic.

The two men who bombed the ammunition site used the same aliases as they used to enter the UK and travel to Salisbury almost four years later – ostensibly to visit the city’s 123-metre high cathedral. In 2018, ‘Alexander Petrov’ and ‘Ruslan Boshirov’ were dispatched to eliminate Skripal for spying on behalf of the UK; their 2014 target was a shipment of military supplies in the eastern Czech village of Vrtebice, allegedly intended to be sent to Ukraine, which at the time was engaged in some of the heaviest fighting against Russian forces and their separatist allies.