Stop that despot Putin

I could respond to those of your correspondents attacking me in your latest edition but I feel this may be better left until World

War III is over.

The absurd concerns of the wimps of woke, and of fanatical environmentalists, now fade into irrelevance, as the real world puts into proportion their vacuous meanderings.

Vladimir Putin has crossed the Rubicon, letting slip the dogs of war, and we now hear the hoofbeats of the four horsemen resounding across the world.

He is clearly not motivated by fear of encirclement, but by a desire to recreate the Russian

Empire of the Tsars, and events are eerily similar to those of the late 1930s, when another despot set out to conquer Europe.

The claims by Hitler that he was only seeking to protect his fellow countrymen who lived in foreign nations, and were being oppressed, and now echoed by Putin in his claims about Russian speakers abroad, allowed many foolish people to defend the former’s actions until he finally launched the Wehrmacht against totally different peoples. Incidentally one wonders just who thought it a good idea to hold the recent security meeting in a city named Munich.

If Putin is allowed to get away with crushing the Ukraine, then the Baltic states will be next, followed by Finland, before he turns his baleful eye on the countries of Western Europe. We must, as in the words of Shakespeare’s Henry V “when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood” or endure years of retreat, and eventual defeat, by the totalitarian states.

Colin Bullen