Although AMD is in the interest of Europe as a whole, countries of Central and Eastern Europe are particularly motivated to contribute to its creation.
There is an additional aspect to this. Although AMD is in the interest of Europe as a whole, countries of Central and Eastern Europe are particularly motivated to contribute to its creation. History has taught us a bitter security lesson and keeping USA engaged in the European territory will always be an overriding priority for those countries once behind the iron curtain. It is absolutely indispensable, that all allies within the North-Atlantic area enjoy the same level of security. We all need to benefit of the protection of the anti-missile umbrella. The contrary would mean to abandon the basic principle of the post WW2 euro-atlantic security relationship.