I just checked and you are again right, I had my facts wrong about THAAD deployment timeline. It maybe a defensive weapon but when you're a NATO member by way

I just checked and you are again right, I had my facts wrong about THAAD deployment timeline. It maybe a defensive weapon but when you're a NATO member by way of article 5 along with everything else NATO offers it becomes yours to use. If canada and mexico were russia's allies and russia had a similar technology, would we dismiss it for being purely defensive or work against our neighbors (as with cuba) to change that? Russia's main military strength is their nuclear forces, a defensive weapon changes variables in "mutually assured destruction" it is that much less mutual what the fallout from nukes would be. I am not supporting Russian reasoning, simply describing it.