Slap in the face to Irish revolutionaries

Regarding ‘Why we should welcome warships’ (Letters, Sept 9) Anthony Leavy is missing some basic facts.

1. Ireland does not owe its ‘democratic freedoms... to the US military’. That’s a slap in the face to Irish revolutionaries who forced the English out.

Fact: The Russian people bore the brunt of Hitler’s savagery. Almost 25 million Russians lost their lives in Second World War. China lost about ten million. The Germans lost over six million.