Irish were just cannon fodder for imperialists
Well, it is certainly time to change our thinking on this monstrous tragedy. The war had nothing to do with 'the freedom of small nations,' or any other kind of freedom.
To suggest that imperial Russia, France, England or 'poor little Catholic Belgium' the latter responsible for the extermination of 10 million natives in the Congo were fighting for other than their own imperial interests is ridiculous.
