U.S. President Barack Obama has shelved a missile barricade plan that former president George W. Bush said was necessary in dealing with potential threats from Iran and the like.

The missile defense plan, conceptualized under the Bush administration, would involve the deployment of interceptor missiles in Poland, along with a radar station in the Czech Republic.

Obama’s actions are being criticized by U.S. Conservatives, but the president has said that the discontinuance of the said defense plan would be beneficial to both the U.S. and Russia, who has expressed distaste for the Bush missile plan. While the original functions of the missile defense system was for defensive retaliation against Iran, Russia believes that it harbors hidden agendas, even going as far as expressing that the missile plan is actually targeting the country.

Russia, however, accepts Obama’s actions to abandon the said plans.

“If the by-product of it is that the Russians feel a little less paranoid… then that’s a bonus,” according to Obama during an interview in CBS‘ Face the Nation. ”Russia had always been paranoid about this, but George Bush was right. This wasn’t a threat to them.”

Obama expressed his beliefs that the better defense for the U.S. would come from a better relationship with Russia, and a more proactive cooperation manifested in dealing with threats like Iran.

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