Reader's Blog: Neutrality has never been more important

Perhaps your editorial (April 1), on Nato’s 70th anniversary was intended as an April Fool joke, but one should not play such games when so many peoples’ lives are at stake. You describe the UN, EU, and Nato as three great alliances. Humanity needed an effective UN to create international peace, but it has failed to achieve this vital objective because it has not been allowed to by its five controlling veto wielding powers, three of whom, US, UK and France are also Nato powers.

The EU began as a great project. It did play an important role in maintaining peace in Western Europe. However, since then, the EU is evolving into a militarised super state, intent on using its military power to promote European interests and exploit the resources of weaker states.