Just as in 1812, sometimes war finds you.
The new American republic was supplying the French big time in the Napoleonic Wars. I am Irish so rooting for anyone who fights or did fight the British are my heroes but you can’t blame the British for attempting to stem the military supplies going to the French from across the Atlantic. The stories you have heard otherwise about the causes of the War of 1812 are just propaganda.
The war of 1812 had North American causes. That’s pretty different from this situation.
And we had neither neocons nor liberal interventionists back then. We need to put the kibosh on both of them NOW!!!