First of all, any misile defense system in Europe is dumber than a box of creek rocks... Face it, Europe is too small to go throwing misiles, perhaps with muclear warheads on top of them, at anyone in the neighborhood... This would be absolutely suididal...
So let's move on here...
This isn't about anything other han Putin-head playing to his base much the way that Bush plays to his base...
I guess what I have problems with why both Bush and Putin feel so compelled to play to the 20% or less knothead reactionaries in each of their respective societies???