The war in Ukraine: ‘The key thing is how to get a solution and end this conflict’

• INTERESTING letters in your newspaper about the effect of the Ukraine invasion on UK prices and imports etc, I suggest, miss the point. The key thing is how to get a solution and end this conflict.

Compare this heavy artillery bombardment with Imperial Germany’s 5th Army, intent on destroying the French Army, at the strategic small city of Verdun.

The greatest battle in history dragged on almost all of 1916. Thousands died and Verdun and its neighbourhood was blown to bits. The city, or what was left of it, held but there was no winner.

The most destructive war in history just dragged on. In England food was the current shortage that oil and gas are in 2022.

U-boats attacked merchant shipping. And 1917 was also terrible as war raged on in Flanders. When Imperial Russia collapsed Germany looked better placed to fight on but the additional troops and arms from the USA joining the war in 1917 and massive food shortages led to German surrender.

The comparison is made to show this Ukraine War could drag on and on as there will be, this time, no UK or US boots on Ukraine ground. It is better to seek a solution than examine the degree of influence this conflict has on UK gas prices.

Maybe now Boris Johnson is gone a new policy will emerge, but in the interim some insiders will make a lot of money in oil and arms trading.

The House of Commons after WWI was described by a leading Conservative politician as “full of people who had done well out of the war”.

There followed WWII and, again, the USA lent its vast help to Britain to defeat Nazi Germany.
Russia is not a dictatorship and it needs this war to terminate as much as we do, and soon.

GARFIELD J SMITH, NW2