*** Not just for the reason Brzezinski illustrated, but because of a concept known as ‘nuclear primacy’ - a nuclear power can defeat another by eliminating its nuclear weapons before they can be launched against them. The reason why NATO ABM sites have been built in Poland and Romania is to push their reach closer to Russia’s European borders, the part where most Russian citizens live. This already increases the threat to Russia immensely, and has informed their military tech research and manufacturing to focus on anti-missile defence and away from conventional threats. *** This crisis was not about Ukraine....