It was a stupid move. It provides no real protection to eastern Europe while aggravating the Russians.
Bet you were a sourpuss on the Pershings too.
Russia is being Russia. The Eastern Europeans are glad to help us out as they will NOT go thru another 50 years of Russian rule again.
Putin’s pissed because he’s losing his buffer. That’s just too freaking bad. That’s what happens when you enslave entire nations for 50 years. They could care less if you want to get along after that or not.
Putin doesn’t want to reign in Iran? Fine. He’ll have to deal with missile defense. A missile defense he damn well knows is not capable of defending against a Russian missile attack.
And the anti-missile defense deployed along our borders would make us angry? Why? There are these little things called “Ohios” that sort of make that a moot point.