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LettersWest is in denial about Putin’s nuclear threats, but shouldn’t seek proof
- Readers discuss the chances of a Russian nuclear attack, the proposed civil servant pay increases, the mental health of subdivided flat dwellers and the treatment of migrant workers in Taiwan
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What Zhou Bo proposes in “Nato and the West must heed Russia’s warnings to avoid nuclear holocaust” (May 26) is not easy: heeding is based on believing and believing on seeing, and so far no one has seen a radioactive tsunami created by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear sea drone.
Besides, most of the West is reluctant to realise that Ukraine is not a bone between two dogs but between a dog and a bear. Fortunately, movers and shakers there understand this and thus we see only Western material in that country and not Western troops.
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When a Nato submarine hydrophone detects our sea drone, it will change everything as hearing is also believing. Better then for Nato to withdraw forces to positions they occupied in 1997, as Putin demands, and live long and happy lives, as after seeing a radioactive tsunami, their lives will be neither.
Mergen Mongush, Moscow
Spend on the public, not civil servants’ salaries
While senior civil servants are set for a salary increase to exorbitant levels, the minimum wage has not budged for years. Civil servants’ salary levels are subject to annual review; the minimum wage is not. Many civil servants (especially middle-ranking and senior ones) could work from home or reduce their hours during the most severe periods of the pandemic, but many ordinary blue-collar workers risked their lives going to work or faced having their income cut.
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