When citizens of the Czech Republic voted in their country’s crucial parliamentary elections last weekend, they were deciding more than their own democracy’s future. They were also determining the fate of Ukraine. The Czech Republic — or Czechia — may be a small Central European nation, but it’s functioned as a practical frontline state in the West’s standoff with Russia. It’s sheltered hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and procured vital ammunition for Ukraine. An abrupt shift in Prague’s