No diplomacy from US or UK

I NOTE with interest your report on Russia’s Victory Day celebrations (“Putin: Our offensive in Ukraine is response to western policies””, The Herald, May 10).

According to my reading of history, since the end of the Second World War the United States has deliberately provoked the USSR, rattling its sabre, treating Russia as some kind of pariah. Russia has had to keep its eyes open to make sure the US is not using its power to gather the rest of the world against it.

I am not saying I agree with what Putin has done, but there was not a single diplomatic syllable uttered by the White House, or the British Foreign

Secretary or the Prime Minister. The aggressive language from the US and the UK has no place in foreign policy.

Margaret Forbes,

Blanefield.