Re Simon Alderton’s letter in last week’s Echo (25 Sept). Can we all agree that The Echo is a valued local paper and as such doesn’t need to provide space for letters covering international affairs? There’s enough going on in this shire and our home country to provide enough discussion material.
This would avoid heated discussions on the Gaza war (like in past issues) or such ill-informed letters as the one from Simon Alderton in last week’s Echo.
That the war in Ukraine is a proxy war fought in US-American interests is a widely accepted fact and not a ‘right-wing conspiracy theory’. The West has expanded NATO well beyond its agreed-upon borders from 1989 (after the fall of the Iron Curtain), broken important agreements like the Minsk Accord, and meddled in Ukrainian affairs for over ten years.
Nobody is claiming that the Russian invasion is Ukraine’s fault. This country has been dealt terrible cards by the more powerful interests of our ‘allies’.
Simon should read the book The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine. The Mass Killing that Changed the World, freely downloadable from its Canadian author Ivan Katchanovski. It might give him a little more understanding.
Thank you! Your regular reader,
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
