Also a lot of people seem to think WW1 ended in a kind of stalemate. It didn't. It was a decisive victory for the allies .
UK population estimated at 45.4 million.
UK combat dead and missing in action ww1 – 744,000
UK total military deaths from all causes – 887,858
% population killed military and civilian – approx. 2%
Imagine that.
That’s just the UK. Yup a decisive victory – what what – well worth the effort – what what – well done boys! – what what.
I suppose at least by the 1900’s they’d stopped shipping the bodies home, grinding them up and spreading them on the fields as fertilizer.
it also led to the freedom of speech you are exercising here, along with the rest of us.
That’s a thought eh? Millions of men firing lumps of metal at each other, blowing each other up, cutting each other’s throats. Millions of dead. Men, indeed whom history shows, one Christmas put down their weapons down to play football, share cigarettes and have a drink together. Men with more in common with each other than they ever had apart. Why? They were simply told to kill each other by their rich political masters – that was all.
As for freedom of speech and freedom of expression, well, the mob mentality of war still exists to this day, just ask Nemanja Matic.