 After Ukraine, Putin will clean up Armenia. If Ukraine loses, then America's enemies will determine the world order. Former NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson said this. If the Ukrainians lose, if Putin wins, we all lose. After the victory over Ukraine, Putin will clear Moldova, Armenia and Kazakhstan and create a buffer zone there. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen has seen his fair share of international crisis according to the telegraph. It is noted that as Tony Blair's Secretary of State for Defense and later the Secretary-General of NATO between 1999 and 2003, he presided over NATO's intervention in Kosovo in 1999, the alliance's enlargement to include former Warsaw Pact members in Eastern Europe and its only ever invocation of Article 5, the North Atlantic Treaty's Self-Defense Clause, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Unlike many retired politicians and generals, he is still viewed by serving defense officials and thinkers as a credible elder, statesman. Now, he has a warning. We are living through a period of global volatility, unlike anything in history, and we are not rising to the occasion. I think the next stage for Putin, if he succeeds here, is that you build up another buffer. He will mop up Moldova, Armenia, Kazakhstan, building that buffer in there. There is a timidity both in the White House and in Downing Street and in other capitals in Europe that they don't want to escalate. You can't give them long-range weapons because they might use them into territorial Russia, then we will have World War III. So that fear of escalation is reducing that objective that Ukraine has got to win. Lord Robertson explains.