What is the role of NATO battalions on the Eastern Flank? To die heroically?

On December 20 Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová traveled to military base Ādaži in Latvia. I also had a chance to visit NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) multinational battalion that consists of a framework nation Canada and of Albania, Czech Republic, Iceland, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. The Slovak contingent is currently made of 135 soldiers. On the occasion of President Čaputová's visit, I talked to Toms Rostoks, an Associate Professor in International Relations at University of Latvia and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Security and Strategic Research at the National Defence Academy. We discussed what led to the creation of the eFP concept and why Russia should blame itself that the Alliance deployed four battalions to Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. What does Dr. Rostoks think about Moscow's demands that the US and NATO should limit their activities on the Alliance Eastern Flank? Should we talk to Kremlin about this? And how much is he concerned about the possibility of the Russian invasion against Ukraine? Listen to our conversation: What is the role of NATO battalions on the Easter Flank? To die heroically?