Just Politics

[rollingrock]

well maybe....MAD is an issue and
could come into play.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/you_know_youre_in_lala_land_when_pacifists_oppose_defensive_missile_systems.html

since around 2015 BMD has been installed on 47 Burke DDG's now and I think 5 Ticonderoga class cruisers. Lake Erie and Port Royal for sure. All cruisers and destroyers forward deployed to Japan and the 4 to Rota, Spain have BMD. That's why one is sent into the Black Sea about once a month. International Law only allows a foreign War ship
other than the countries bordering the Black sea to stay only two weeks and then back to the Med. That link was somewhat misleading because the Finn intercepted that ICBM back before Christmas. FYI.