There is no evidence of that, not even with Laird & Sons building two ships for the South. Sounds like Neoconfederate propaganda to me.
In the civil war (the UK) intervened with the goal of spitting the union …
You accusing the Brits of sinking the Lusitania?? never mind having a bizarre view of Germany of that era?
Today is the day the Lusitania was sunk. We were neutral at that time. The British demanded we not trade with Germany and was willing to sink our neutral shipping to enforce it. …
Ok dim bulb, try to keep up. In the Civil war the Brits sold all the Enfield rifles they could to the south. And remember the blockade runners,,, their main goal was trade with England.
England did all it could without crossing a line that would get them into a war.
As for the Lusitania, no, the Germans sunk it. It was bringing munitions to England from New York. The Germans took out a full page ad in the NYT saying it was a war cargo and would be sunk. They told people to not sail on it.
The point you miss is that England reserved the same right the Germans did. England openly threatened American shipping, neutral country shipping, with the sinking or capture if ANY cargo was sent from the USA to Germany.
And no, no special relationship is good for us. Washington explicitly said that a special relationship, leads to treating others unfairly.
It isn’t “Obama” to not be a British cheerleader.