If either Russia or Iran is trying to hit America the obvious way to throw missiles is over the pole since that's the shortest Great circle route. Radars at Fylingdales, Thule or in Alaska make sense since they are able to look at the tracks side on. GDMs in any of these places don't seem sensible since they're a long way to the side, meaning even bigger missiles are needed and the longer flight time makes a timely response more problematic.

Poland, OTOH, is further off track than Fylingdales or Thule because its further south. GDM missiles would have not only further to go but would have a stern chase, giving lower approach speed and so much less impact energy, which varies as the square of the impact speed.

So I really don't understand the benefit of radar in Poland, let alone putting GDM stuff there. Unless, of course, the real purpose is to piss Putin off and start WW3.

> not to exceed $397,900,000. Under the contract, American aerospace goliath Boeing will "continue development of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program; including Block 3 development and fielding activities for six months...

Looks to me like an under-the-counter off-the-radar hand-out. Faced with competition from Airbus, Boeing gave away their technological crown jewels. The ideological commitment to dollar hegemony, wherein it doesn't matter whether the US makes anything or not, as long as everything everywhere is ultimately referenced by value (excuse the IT oxymoron) in dollars, is taking down Boeing, as it is the car makers. They'd rather you didn't know it just yet.

It is widely accepted that the Bush administration is packed full of old cold warriors.

He has adopted Islam, cut off our gas and then wait for us as we try and sneak in to turn it back on

Then his vast war machine will crush our freedom's to dust in a new Peoples Republic of Europe

Sort of reverse Lebensraum