the weird thing about this is that obama has been against missile defense in europe from the beginning, right? I might be wrong about that, but I thought that was something he campaigned against and promised to end or let die were he elected. so, unless the ruskies have been sleeping for the past year or so it seems that it would be hard to use the threat of ending missile defense as a bargaining chip for help with iran when russia knows obama has been against it from the start. well, unless obama reads xpt and planned his tact by gauging russian logic from reading panzer's posts.