Savagery across the world for people worse than animals

“THEY behaved like animals”. How many times have we heard this to describe the barbaric behaviour of human beings?

Nothing could be further from the truth, for animals never plumb the depths of depravity which human beings seem ever willing to occupy today.

The world, in current times, is subjected to increasing numbers of appalling, violent conflicts where each and every one has, it seems, to produce greater barbarism and horrors than the one before. Have the dreadful experiences of two World Wars been superseded by today’s continuing acts of unbelievable violence and savagery which many of us could never in our darkest moments have ever envisaged?

It now has become an everyday occurrence for humans to be suicide bombers and to slaughter innocent men, women and children; for rockets to be fired indiscriminately at civilian establishments; for aircraft to be blown out of the sky; for children to be taken as hostages to satisfy the spurious demands of their captors; for millions to be made homeless, hungry, freezing and totally destitute, and for savagery on a scale which defies the understanding of normal people.

From: Robert Reynolds, 
West Bank, Batley.

IF you believe Nigel Farage, then Putin “played a blinder” regarding the reclaiming of the Crimea. I don’t agree. Putin has always played the old Soviet game. It’s all he knows. That game requires an enemy – the Capitalist West. This requires propaganda, which has bombarded Russians for over ten years. It creates a Russian Empire or as he would put it “spheres of interest”. This requires a military, to parade Russian might and that in turn feeds the pride of Russian nationalism.

Be in no doubt, the Soviet Union has been re-born. Putin’s Russia is a fearsome totalitarian State, like China.

Its neighbours fear its actions and Ukrainians rebelled against closer ties. They still remember suffering in the old Soviet Union To be fair, America humiliated Russia ceaselessly after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. That tends to create little people like Putin, hungry, in their eyes, for revenge.

We now have a second Cold War in the making. As Russia and China sign trade agreements and America is close to collapsing in debt, is it not the height of stupidity to leave the EU and stand alone against Putin’s growing power? I certainly wouldn’t call that “playing a blinder”.