Russia has been very clear that they see eastern Europe as small, and it is. It's their near abroad and they get as concerned about it—maybe even more concerned—as we would when we see them operating in our near abroad whether it's over the pole or elsewhere. They have publicly stated that they reserve the right to take action when they feel it is getting a bit close to home and it is a bit threatening.
Unfortunately the actions they choose to take are often a bit unsavoury and a bit underhanded, and difficult to attribute, which raises significant uncertainty in terms of who's actually done it in the moment and what the best response to it might be. There's an approach by Russia to the international rule of law that I think is quite corrosive, from a Canadian perspective, in terms of our interest in being part of global system that operates above board and that works for us.
I don't think there's any question as we deploy troops into Latvia and put assets in and around eastern Europe that the Russians will take an interest in that and it will at times be an aggressive interest in undermining the credibility of those efforts and doing so occasionally in a very direct and personal way for individuals who are deployed in those—