Transcript of Former MI6 Chief Sir Alex Younger on Russia, Syria and Cyberwarfare

Messing with our elections and our cyber. That's absolutely real.

Some of the tactics that the Russians have been using for at least two decades, like assassinations, disinformation campaigns, are we now seeing an escalation of that?

I am worried about this. It's not that we can't deal with this in terms of our capabilities, but that we're just not configured to deal with it. For Russia, it's a place run by a man. It's not run by rules. Western liberal democracies are run by rules, not strong men. And these rules are being used against us because these rules for us create boundaries. And whilst I don't think Putin is intent on firing a nuclear weapon at us, messing with our fiber optic cables and our critical national infrastructure and our elections and our cyber, that's absolutely real. It's going to be a feature of our life, more or less whatever happens.