[DiogenesLamp]

You are deliberately mixing up the context of what was being discussed. Were you to focus on the specifics of the conversation, you would be aware that it was about Lincoln's sending of the war fleet against the South. *THAT* was all Lincoln.

Sure, he may have had backers urging him to do something, anything to stop those Southerners from capturing all that European capital that they were used to have going through their fingers, but this tactic of sending a war fleet that had orders to attack, but due to some incredibly lucky "screwup" would not actually attack, that was all Lincoln. No conspiracy about that part.

[HandyDandy]

“Were you to focus on the specifics of the conversation.........”

Sounds funny coming from you. You admit you skip entire posts by certain posters. You don’t know what you are missing. Kind of similar to how you do your own research. Who were Davis’s biggest backers?