Every day we—the west and NATO, I'll just combine the two—do nothing except on the political levels, which probably none of us will ever know about at that particular time, they are getting more and more adventurous, and they will do more and more. They have the power to do that. The whole Russian army's aim is to fight a war on land on their borders, and that's what they are geared up to do. Of course, all the other former Soviet bloc countries are not able to defend themselves against those types of attacks.
On October 25th, 2017. See this statement in context.