I always wondered why Putin wanted the Polish Missile defense closed and I looked at my maps. There are several missile complexes that are west of Moscow and might be range of those at the Polish site. Maybe he afraid that he would have them shot down when those Russian missiles when they are out of their silos.
Its more about the breakup of the USSR and how the Pope John Paul and Reagan worked together to free Poland from communist slavery.
Since the collapse of the USSR, Russia has always refered to Poland and the Baltics as “lost children” that will someday soon be re-annexed back as Russian property.
It drives the thugs at the Krelim nuts that they are no long part of their “sphere of influence”.
Poland has especially been vocal of all the attrocities the communists perpetrated on their country after WW2.