GA Woodward is correct in his analysis of the crisis in Ukraine (February 21).

David Cameron is stirring up anti Russian rhetoric in order to hide the effect that his disastrous policies like the bedroom tax are having on the British working class.

The problems in Ukraine originate from the aggressive expansionist policies of the European Union.

The EU is expanding eastwards to include many previously communist countries that were in the Russian sphere of influence.

The EU is using NATO as a big stick to beat the Russian bear into submission. NATO was set up to defend Europe against the USSR during the Cold War.

NATO was not set up to support the aggressive eastward expansionist policies of the European Union.

Steve Halden Beaufort Green Swindon