A bit extra from our interview with ex-Nato chief Lord Robertson now.
Earlier this week, the outgoing head of the British Army, General Sir Patrick Saunders, instructed British women and men might face a call-up to the military within the occasion of a battle with Russia.
Sky News requested Lord Robertson if Britain might find yourself combating Russia instantly if Ukraine loses.
He stated the alliance’s constitution, which says an attack on one member is taken into account an attack on all, will “make it possible for Vladimir Putin stands effectively off from there”.
But he added: “That doesn’t suggest to say that he is not going to go in different instructions as effectively. And in the end, we’ll be within the firing line.”
NATO ‘not threatening’ Russia
Lord Robertson stated NATO was “not threatening Russia” and the alliance was “purely defensive”.
“We’re defending the freedoms that we have now grown used to ever since NATO was created,” he stated. “But we have now to make it possible for the entire of the inhabitants is engaged.”
He defined that conscription is “precisely the flawed debate to be having as a result of conscription isn’t a great way of each setting out defences, regardless that some generals at the moment are starting to advocate that”.
He added: “Conscripts aren’t helpful. Vladimir Putin has discovered that out solely too effectively.
“So we have to make it possible for our defence expenditure is at a stage that is sensible for the sort of threats that we would face sooner or later.
“If we’ll defend Britain and if we’re going to deter aggression, then we have to have a sturdy defence of this nation.”
