A satiric carnival float depicting the leaders of China, United Kingdom, Russia, USA and North Korea, Xi Jinping, Boris Johnson, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un as puppets is watched by a reveller during a preview in a hall in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. The traditional carnival parades on Rosemonday make fun of politics and are watched by hundreds of thousands in the streets of Cologne, Duesseldorf and Mainz. Credit: Martin Meissner / AP

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To the leaders of the “free world”: Why are you pushing us to the brink of nuclear war once again? It was, I believe, your effort to push your missiles up to the Russian border through NATO that got the whole thing in Ukraine going in the first place.

Has no-one explained to you the consequences of a nuclear war? Are you still expecting a meaningful victory?

Our children deserve a life. Why are you preparing to cut it short? Do not even your own children mean anything to you? A nuclear war will incinerate English children and American children as well as Russian children. Does your preoccupation with looking powerful override even that question too?

Stop all this childish blaming of everything on the Russians and the Chinese. They will negotiate with us if we come to the table with the real intention to solve problems rather than win.

James Hunter

Lincoln

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