Missile Shield's Only Purpose Was To Provoke Russia.

GLOBALPOST/Opinion/H.D.S. Greenway/
"When President George W. Bush committed the U.S.to putting up a missile shield in Poland, with radar facilities in the Czech Republic, the Russians raised holy hell.
The installations would have made very little difference in the strategic balance between Russia and the West. Russia has enough missiles to overwhelm such a slender defensive reed.
What got the Russians was that it was so obviously an anti-Russian move. The Cold War was supposed to be over, Russia said, and the move further depressed U.S.-Russian relations that reached a post-Cold War low under Bush."