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I think the watershed moment was the annexation of Crimea in 2014 by Putin, and as importantly, the reaction or lack of reaction by European and Western governments in general. And we obviously acknowledged it and took note, but we didn't really understand the threat. And the danger, even back then, that that created was that you essentially allowed someone with territorial ambitions to do more.