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Letter: Tamed, who?

Published 7 January 2009

From Frank Spence

Piers Bizony says “recent military events in Georgia have reminded [the European Space Agency] that Russia may not yet be a fully tamed member of the international community” (15 November 2008, p 22). The way the UK and the US go rampaging round the world, bombing at will, raises an obvious question.

Reading, Berkshire, UK

Issue no. 2690 published 10 January 2009

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