It was a poor joke Bobcat, my apologies (not that I"M backing down
).
My point is, I find it difficult to believe the Russsians were out to "send a message" by launching a missle, which unfortunately for them, had a failure of some kind. As for not putting missles in Poland, actually that deal worked out rather sweetly for both sides and turned out to be a good political move for us. It just looked weird initially.