There is a substantial new troop presence at a scale without recent precedent and you're just trying to change the subject. It has recently been reported as 190,000 troops. Literally none of the articles cited by you or your friend have those kinds of figures.

So to recap:

• The Rostov base has nothing to do with anything
• a news cycle about a picture has nothing to do with anything
• The timeline of previous buildups have nothing to do with anything.

You're just cycling through stupid derails, one after another. Next you're probably going to post a news article about how a reporter said something wrong about Russia in 2017 and say "what about this?!?!" And that, too, will have nothing to do with anything.

You're continuing to waste my time and yours, which I'm guessing is the goal here.