Roy "Sir Winston and I" Hilliard has his eyes wide shut to the grim political reality when he says "The US gained nothing by fighting the war in Europe" ("Yanks, thanks", Letters, February 18).

Wake up, Mr Hilliard. How else do you think the US has become the giant superpower it has, with a regime now trying to get everybody else to do as it does and think as it thinks - or else?

Turn a blind eye and deaf ear to what is going on around you if you must, Mr Hilliard, but don't expect others to do likewise.

-Richard W Symonds, Lavington Close, Ifield