WATCHING Channel 4's programming on Sunday night live from the International Space Station doing a lap of our planet brought home how interdependent we all are living on this Earth.
While the Russians and Americans combine on these future projects for mankind, their inert politicians make puerile gesticulatory speeches to be swallowed by their masses.
In Ukraine, the unrest has been goaded on by the Americans prodding their puppet EU aspirations in an area which has been "Russified" for centuries, and the last few unsettling decades is for that region alone to sort out. America should never have been in Iraq or Afghanistan as they even made a mess of Panama and Cuba on what they considered their own fiefdom.
While we in the UK will be subjected this week to Conservative/Labour money talk about deficits, America has been considering how to reign in its defence spending in the light of its National Debt of $17 trillion. Its defence contractors now have their opportunity to persuade a pliant Congress that more money needs to be spent, not less.
Ronald Rankin,
Coates House, Dalkeith.
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