FIRST there was Blair and his buddy Bush who destablised Iraq, then Blair’s protégé Cameron who made a mess in Libya and was intent on overthrowing Assad in Syria until his fellow inmates in the House of Madness forcefully restrained him.

The variable excuses given for attacking sovereign foreign states are ‘weapons of mass destruction’ or ‘regime change’.

Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were undoubtedly monsters, but they kept order in their own backyard, at the cost of even graver consequences for the rest of us, as we are now witnessing.

If we were so intent on democratisation why didn’t we overthrow Joe Stalin? Yeh. Got it. Might is right.

Now we have Maclaine and the Neo-Cons in far away America agitating for regime change in the Ukraine. As always the Senate makes the cannonballs for aircraft carrier Britain to fire.

Perhaps the lunatic fringe want to commemorate the centenary of the Somme and the bicentenary of Waterloo by staging World War 3; after all it would solve the problem of overpopulation and mass immigration overnight.

Any survivors would have the luxury of a troglodyte existence.

There was even some Commons comedian suggesting that Putin has his eyes now on invading the Baltic States.

Talk about stoking up apocalyptic fire. If Putin indeed has such imperialistic aims might I suggest he turns his attention to the re-acquisition of Alaska?

That would really have the Senate, to use an old Scotch phrase, cacking their breeks.

JAMES MARTIN, Cowdenbeath.