Bush through Barack Obama

It is also worth noting that every US president from George H. W. Bush through Barack Obama visited Prague during their term in office. This executive-level attention to a modest-sized, relatively nonstrategic piece of real estate in Central Europe was not lost on the Czechs, who prioritized the country’s close ties to Washington over even their deepening bonds with their European partners. This was particularly conspicuous in the security realm as the Czechoslovak military until 1992 and then the Czech Army, following the 1993 “velvet divorce” creating separate Czech and Slovak states, put boots on the ground in almost every US-led multilateral military engagement—Iraq (1991 and 2003), the Balkans (1990s), and Afghanistan (2000s)—since the fall of the Iron Curtain. สล็อตเว็บตรง