From the Czech Republic:

Prague- The planned U.S. radar base on Czech soil is the first chance for the Czech Republic to accommodate its ally – the United States, former Czech President Vaclav Havel said in the Questions of Vaclav Moravec programme on public Czech Television (CT) today.
He added that without the U.S. aid the independent Czechoslovakia would not be established in 1918 and the Iron Curtain would never fall.
“The Americans want something from us for the first time. Previously we always wanted something from them. They want such a little thing. And we have started shilly-shallying,” Havel said.