Letters
Where can the west go now over Ukraine?
When nations are backed into a corner, they eventually lash out (Darkness falls, 25 February). Hitler was Germany’s disastrous response to the onerous war reparations inflicted by the first world war victors. Vladimir Putin is Russia’s disastrous response to the triumphal advance of Nato and the EU across the old Soviet fiefdoms of eastern Europe.
Nelson Mandela, uniquely, understood that it is crucial for victors to be magnanimous, to
