Well said, Frank Avenell (Letters March 4), in that Cameron casually informs the British public he has authorised the involvement of UK armed forces in the Ukraine conflict, thus emulating his predecessor Blair in totally ignoring the wishes of the British people.
When the US beats the war drums, it would seem our successive governments need scant, if any, encouragement to follow suit.
It would seem Cameron has learnt nothing from his Commons defeat regarding the proposal to bomb Syria, as he quietly last month supplied the Kiev pro Nazi regime with 20 British Saxon armoured vehicles, with a promise of another 55 to follow.
Word would have it that the Kiev regime is busily in the process of fitting heavy calibre machine guns on to these previously unarmed reconnaisance vehicles, and no doubt these will be used against Poroshenko’s own population in the Donbas if the current truce does not hold to supplement his already indiscriminate civilian shelling, which surely makes him a war criminal.
It should also be remembered that after the disillusionment of the Soviet Union, large stockpiles of conventional weaponry were left in Ukraine, and much of it in the large cities of the Eastern Donbas.
The US has tried several times to implicate Putin in having supplied tanks and arms to the pro Russian rebels, but have been caught with their pants down in using historic images supplied by the pro Nazi Kiev regime, taken from the Georgian attack on South Ossetia.
It is surely a contradiction in terms that President Putin would want to further the civil war in his neighbouring country by supplying regular troops and armaments, whilst at the same time trying to work as hard as possible with both the leaders of the EU and Poroshenko’s Kiev regime.
Isn’t it also rather ominous that the US took no part in the latest round of peace talks in Minsk?
As it would seem any contributions from them are entirely negative, whilst trying to blame Russia for the trouble they did so much to instigate during the Kiev coup.
GA Woodward Nelson Street Swindon
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