“Hey look, I’m 1000% behind a missile shield for our friends in Eastern (good) Europe, but I don’t think we’re gonna need to use it against Iran.”
It was sold to be against Iran because it can have about zero use against Russia—they’ll lob a cruise missile or chaff device into the Czech radar if they want to.
The stories about phantom Iranian ICBMs on the “drawing board” were even more ridiculous than the stories about NK put out by the Star Wars Part Deux lobby.
How dare we find ways to defend this country..