Evidently you have never known much about it and still don’t.
One reason that you sound so young is that you seem to think that someone who has a strong interest and knowledge in the Cold ware and the balance of power and military matters and that actually was a part of it, suddenly stopped paying attention to it when he left the military.
Another reason is how you ignore facts and the big picture, and realities, and prefer little bits and pieces of articles about a new weapon system, or an upgrade, or about some complaints within NATO, or something negative about the American military that titillate your imagination and that you blow up into huge narratives, that is how you come up with the Russian Army being more powerful today than when it was the vast Soviet Army aimed at Western Europe, and your absurd claims that NATO countries are pulling out and seeking alliance with this all powerful Russian military that amounts to about 766,000 people and with little capability to do much, and your ideas about Poland being so powerful that it is going off on it’s own, and the world being more dangerous right now than in the mid 1980s.
I have qualifications and recognition in my field that will stun you. You have not proven in any shape or form that you really do not know much about what has happened military science wise when you could not identify the Onyx Yakhont which is a major development. Tell me what the Frog is and what was it used for. I bet you cannot do that without Google.
You cannot defend yourself except by making personal attacks. When ever anyone does that they have lost the debate and you have. You try to frame things in your mindset to have an imagined feeling of superiority because you have really lost it. Do you have anything better to do than post all day on Free Republic. I bet not. You repeat yourself ad-nauseum and you don’t jack you obsolescent old fool.
I said Poland was independent enough for themselves to go make other alliances. You distort things too and I am not surprised. I know exactly what kind of person you are.