Speaker to Animals wrote:Smitty-48 wrote:Speaker to Animals wrote:What's more.. even in the context of the Civil War, it wasn't the Yankees who won that fucking thing. It was their Irish immigrants. Those guys didn't have a chance to become "Yankees" yet. You lot drafted them before they could even step off their fucking ships, and sent them into the fray to battle their own fellow Irish.
That really sums up the Yankee strategy right there. Capitulate and surrender when you might have to sacrifice yourself, but if you can bring in millions of immigrants, use them for your political gain instead.
Really came down to their navy, they blockaded the Confederacy into a Treaty of Versailles, same as the Royal Navy did to the Kaiserreich.
It came down to their addiction to slavery. If they would just give it up, the British might have intervened more.
The arm of decision in both American revolutions was at sea, in the first revolution, a European superpower intervened with its navy, and so the Original Virginia Seceches won the war, in the second revolution, no European superpower intervened, so the Kings of Virginia fell at the foot of Cemetery Ridge.
But the British didn't actually care about slavery in Dixie, it wasn't a moral imperative which kept them out, they were just daunted by the Union's million man army and suddenly superpowered navy, which could in fact rival the British already, so in the end, no sense losing all of Canada for Richmond VA, the British sided with the stronger side, because they thought they would win in the end, and you don't want to make an enemy of the new superpower on the block, got enough problems in Europe and India, don't need to be dealing with mo problems just for John Cotton and Johnny Reb, who did after all, revolt against the Crown, if John Cotton and Johnny Reb wanted the protection of the Crown, they had their chance in the 1770's.
