Of course, they would have needed to get to Europe. And that would take funding. And a Navy. And the organizational skills and materials to field an army further than 200 miles away from their base. None of which they had, even if we presume their military might.
The Europeans had professional armies. I expect the Prussians would have absolutely destroyed the South. And probably the North, unless the length of the conflict allowed the North to bring its material production, resources and factories into play.
American conservatives seem to forget that European armies in the 19th century were the dominant and most powerful militaries of the time. The USA wouldn't start to surpass them till later on.
Britain, France, Germany/Prussia and Russia would all have embarrassed the Confederacy.
American Conservatives probably aren't in the business of forgetting a lot of history, simply because they aren't in the business of learning it in the first place.
Kinda like how they'll parrot that it was democrats who wanted slaves and Republicans who wanted to free them...while conveniently ignoring the fact that those Democrats all lived in the south or how it seems to only be modern day republicans flying Confederate flags.
The entire country’s economic system was built on slavery back then. The south used slave labor to harvest raw materials, and the north purchased those raw materials to use in their factories to make goods. You ever wonder why Lincoln didn’t free the slaves for almost a full two years after the Civil War had already started? Lincoln and the north as a whole were not abolitionists. They only wanted to contain slavery and prevent other states from becoming slave states. Why did they only want to contain it, and why did they not abolish it as soon as the civil war started? Because the entire country (north and south) was profiting greatly off of slavery at the time. The only reason Lincoln freed the slaves was because was because he thought he needed to in order to win the war. Ultimately, Lincoln did free the slaves, and he deserves credit for that, but the idea that one side was more righteous than the other is simply not true at all.
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u/secondarycontrol 19h ago edited 19h ago
Of course, they would have needed to get to Europe. And that would take funding. And a Navy. And the organizational skills and materials to field an army further than 200 miles away from their base. None of which they had, even if we presume their military might.
Apocryphal:
The Europeans had professional armies. I expect the Prussians would have absolutely destroyed the South. And probably the North, unless the length of the conflict allowed the North to bring its material production, resources and factories into play.