War is always about profit

BRIAN Quail (Letters, June 16) has every right to be fearful of Nato’s intentions regarding the Ukraine and Russia in general. Current events are scary replays of the overtures to many previous wars.

Wars don’t just happen, they are deliberately engineered and that history, being as it is written by the cognoscente of the victors, is often an inaccurate prejudiced tissue of lies. In their excellent book The Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregor paint a completely different picture to the one normally found in conventional history books, one that places the blame on a small cohort of the UK elite rather than the Kaiser. Likewise it may came as much a surprise to some readers as it did to GIs fighting on the Normandy beaches to find that the German army was driving vehicles produced by Ford and General Motors and drinking the same carbonated beverages they were.

It is also not widely publicised that after the war the international corporations which owned these facilities in Nazi Germany sued the Allies for damage done as was the case for General Motors, which successfully sued the US government for $32m for losses it sustained in its German factories. War is always about profit, but none of it goes to those who do the shooting and dying. The next one will be no different. David J Crawford, 131 Shuna Street, Glasgow.

I was with a walking group in Bishop’s Glen, near Dunoon, when I came across this angler in the tranquil waters of Loch Loskin. The photograph was taken on a Olympus E500 camera.