Russian President Vladimir Putin might get the opposite of what he’s bargained for, as NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently suggested plans of a permanent presence of allied troops on the eastern flank in response to the invasion of Ukraine, which has dragged on for 46 days as of Sunday.

“What we see now is a new reality, a new normal for European security. Therefore, we have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a more longer-term adaptation of NATO,” Stoltenberg is quoted as saying in a recent interview with The Telegraph. “I expect that NATO leaders will make decisions on this when they meet in Madrid at the NATO summit in June.”

Stoltenberg explained that NATO received a “wake-up call” in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea and at that time, implemented the biggest reinforcement of the alliance since the end of the Cold War. In light of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, the alliance, born out of the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty between the US, Canada and European nations, is shifting from reinforcement to a complete “reset.” NATO has since deployed an additional 40,000 troops to the eastern flank from the Baltic to the Black Sea.