FRANKLY, I find that Alyn’s recent article on Putin’s attempt to destabilise Ukraine and Georgia rather hypocritical (We must act like a state if we’re serious about indy, Feb 9)! This also applies to other National correspondents
who have used the same US propaganda from “US intelligence services” (remember the CIA intel that Blair was conned into invading Iraq), considering that he/they come from a country (the UK ) that has been interfering in other countries’ politics for hundreds of years by armed invasion.
The UK and our USA masters have only recently withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan after invasions that killed millions of innocent civilians. They bombed Syrian cities and Libya too.
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For at least the last 100 years our intelligence services (including the CIA) have been interfering in USSR and Russian politics and trying to destabilise that nation.
Indeed the BBC beamed anti-Russian propaganda into the USSR for most of the past 100 years.
The American Forces Network was set up entirely as an anti-Russian radio station, beaming programmes designed to cause discontent.
The UK has tried to interfere in Russia since the revolution in 1917. In 1921 the UK occupied Murmansk and Archangel with our military. The US, France, Poland and Japan seized part of the new USSR to try to re-establish the Russian monarchy.
Alyn will be familiar with the words “SNP Bad” and we are being bombarded with the words “Russia Bad”, even when Russian planes fly in international airspace and Russian ships sail in international waters, we are being fed with Russian suspicion – oh, these bad Russians are at it again!
Do Alyn Smith and co still believe we Brits should still rule the world?
Roy Linton
Aberdeenshire
I MAUN admit tae bein surprised by the reaction o fowk agin wir SNP MPs gaein oot tae the Ukraine tae fun oot fur thirsels juist fit the position is oot thare. That the stooshie haes came frae thaim faw claim tae want independence is bambazin.
Gin we aim tae staun an tak oor place in the wurld, we best ken fit’s gaein on oot thare. Tae hae somewan faw claims tae want independence cry this trip ae “jolly” taks some believing. Gin an MP wantit tae gang awa on ae “jolly” I’m certain sure the Ukraine wuidnae be his first pynt o caa.
I’m surprised thay correspondents haenae quoted Ruth the Mooth an telt thaim tae concentrate on the “day job”.
READ MORE: Scottish man living in Ukraine fears ‘chaos’ over warnings of invasion
Naewan frae Putin doun is gaein tae tak ony heid o Boris. Thay ken foo weel he’s ae liar an ae licht-weicht politeician. Nor can we here belie ocht he says anent the Ukraine ony mair than we can belie a pairty is nae a pairty gin ye wear a suit.
Dave Doogan is oor MP here in Angus an a mair intelligent, haird-warkin an honest MP we cuidnae hae. He is a thochtie cheil an naewan frae the Ukraine wuid poo the woo ower his een. Dave Doogan is nae flamboyant, he disnae say or dae ocht tae mak instant heidlines. Naewan cuid accuse him o bein a “populist”, he’s ower solid an reliable.
Richt noo we hae the worst PM sinsyne the daw o the 20th century an nae opposition pairty tae haud him, or the Tories, tae accoont apairt frae the SNP. Sir Keir, leader o the Labour runt, is nae mair than an apologist fur Boris. Whaur is his opposition tae austerity, cuts in social an health care? Whaur is his anger tae the heichmaist nummer o deaths tae Covid in Europe?
Whaur is his reaction tae the mess o Brexit? An as fur “levelling up”, aince again he haes nocht tae say e’en thou it is clear thare is nae substance tae it an it is naithin mair than ae bourach o soun-bites. He has naithin muckle tae sae agin ocht o that. He cannae e’en score a hit agin the PM ower pairtgait!
We hae a megalomaniac o a PM faw is wullin fur war in the incredulous belief that he wull mell the nation thegither wi aa the verbosity o Churchill! The SNP maun ken fit is gaein on oot in the big wurld, fur thare is naewan else, an nae ither pairty faw we, or anywan else in this braken Britain, can rely on.
George T Watt
Arbroath
BORIS Johnson speaking in Brussels earlier this week: “All people, no matter where they are born, have the right to live safely, choose who governs them and decide which organisations they want to be part of.”
He added: “We won’t compromise on that principle.”
Unless you’re in Scotland, of course.
Roddie Macpherson
Avoch
I AM strongly monarchist, I admire the Queen of Scots even though I suspect her views on Scotland do not mirror mine; no reason why they should. It is no fault of the Queen that the English Government has chosen to send out propaganda to schools.
This expensive piece of Unionist propaganda should be at once returned to sender by every Scottish recipient with a little note saying “don’t send any more junk mail”.
R Mill Irving
Gifford, East Lothian
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