[Thunder90]

I'm sorry to have to give Russia what it wants, it looks like weakness, but frankly the result is fine by me. I'm tired of paying to defend an ungrateful Europe. If they don't care to protect their cities from missiles, why should we? We should focus on an effective North American missile defense shield, and if the Canadians won't help, we should work around them.

Obama wants to take down the domestic missile defense systems so as to not violate the ABM treaty and to please the Russians and Chinese. The problem is that Russia deploys ABM's and the Chinese are set to deploy their own ABM systems.

[americanophile]

Naturally, he’s a fool if he wants to degrade our own N. American defense shield. ABM be damned.