Letters to the Editor: Arms industry is the only sure victor in Yemen and Ukraine

Children at a camp for displaced people in Yemen. The UN estimates the war has claimed 377,000 lives up to the end of last year. Picture: AFP/Getty

There are at least two major wars at present, in Ukraine and in Yemen. One is being beamed into our homes around the clock. The other doesn’t usually merit a reference.

To talk of peace, or even a ceasefire, in Ukraine is to invite mockery. It runs counter to the all-prevailing narrative in the West that the ‘Ukrainians’ are winning and the ‘Russians’ are being taught a lesson they richly deserve. Some, however, are beginning to ask who is really winning the war in Ukraine.