I guess I'm not sure why you put the word defense in quotation marks. There was a war in 1920 between the Poles and Soviets and it reached the gates of Warsaw. It was quite real.
“There was a war in 1920 between the Poles and Soviets and it reached the gates of Warsaw. It was quite real.”
No doubt there was; I thought the earlier part of the same post made clear why “defense” was in quotes.