Yes, it does! The item of primary importance is not the 6 interceptors, it is the radar installation.
All this angst by the Rooskies is about the radar. This radar is capable of seeing everything they do, where currently there are ways to avoid the long range radars in the area by way of scrambling the weaker coverage and screwing up the returns..
The radar is in a necessary place to triangulate the flight paths of missiles launched from Iran. Too close, and you can't get the accuracy you need from the apogee to reentry and target.
It's all about the radar, and we tried to let them have full access to it, but no dice. We have no hidden agenda here, but they do. This facility will never be completed, as they will do what it takes to keep it unplugged.
I hear what you’re saying, that makes a lot of sense. And I certainly don’t want Eastern Europe to be hit by missles.
I’m very suspicious of the folks in Washington with what they did with Serbia and Kosovo. I think they’re slavophobic. I think they’d want to turn Eastern Europe into a dumping ground for the third-world’s overpopulation. I think they’re interested in destablizing Europe. And I’m thinking seriously about moving my family to Eastern Europe before the US turns into MS13 and Latin Kings paradise. At least that’s what I saw when I visisted last year. And I met some Russians and I totally humiliated myself with the “Red Dawn” mindset talking to them. They had no angst whatosever against the US. So ???