The Cold War RE-Enactors will never give up on “Evil “Communist” Russia”. No matter how little connection to reality there is.
Some people just get too old. They can’t learn anything new, or recognize change.
And all they can do is endlessly repeat past patterns, no matter how detached from current day they become.
I was in artillery back in the mid 90’s.
Our command kept up with wargaming “peer battles” against Soviet military, because they slowly were coming to the realization that the Soviets as an entity were gone.
Then we started wargaming fighting insurrection in latin american island nations.
The time span was three years, 96 to 99.
The old generals started griping about the absence of the “Sovs”.