If we are not very careful we will find ourselves sleepwalking into a third world war as Russia views the US-inspired events on its borders in Ukraine as a very serious threat to its sovereignty, as the US-led NATO, which is now the greatest force for evil the world has seen since the Third Reich, which clearly means if any country on the planet fails to toe the American line then it is likely to be threatened with subversion, aggression and quite possibly regime change.

This has already led to the deaths of countless numbers of people in these US-instigated wars.

After the dissolution of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact nations, the whole reason for the existence of NATO became obsolete and it has been used by the US, not as a defensive organisation but conversely as an aggressively offensive one to be used to further its global ambitions, and its firm belief that every nation should want to aspire to the American way of life.

President Obama has confirmed the nation sees this as its right by declaring it is ‘exceptional’. By being exceptional does this mean they have a God-given right to now find a new purpose for NATO in leading it in aggressive intentions against any nations it thinks fit? And to gradually pick them off one by one?

President Putin has clearly demonstrated he was very alarmed at events in Kiev and had absolutely no part in it whatsoever and has tried his utmost by meeting with European leaders in the Belorussian capital Minsk in an effort to try and end the bloodshed, despite the US antagonistic efforts in the background in trying to stoke and ferment further trouble both in Ukraine and elsewhere on Russia’s borders.

Prior to the troubles in Ukraine, President Putin was endeavouring to turn Russia into a modern trading nation which was at peace with the world. However, he had not considered the betrayal of his ambitions by the Western nations who have now all too easily capitulated to US-led NATO aggression, after having had their economies brought to their knees, ironically by a banking crisis that started back in 2008 in the US.

Finally, it has cost British taxpayers millions of pounds in following US inspired wars, some of which were illegal, and has drained the coffers of our nation at a time when we needed it the most, for more sensible and profitable pursuits at home.

G A Woodward Nelson Street Swindon