[fortheDeclaration]

you should've said that they failed to obtain _important recognition_. Yet you did not. Instead you said _real recognition_, as if to imply that the recognition of a small country was not real.

That doesn't mean the countries aren't real, just not important.

Hence, their recognition is not enough to be considered as giving nation status in the eyes of the world, to either the US or Confederacy.

[GOPcapitalist]

That doesn't mean the countries aren't real, just not important

Then why not simply say "unimportant" rather than denying their recognitions are "real"? Word choices matter, ftD. You shot your mouth off with a choice of words aimed at belittling Saxe Coburg Gotha beyond the realm of factual analysis, hoping nobody would challenge it. It got challenged and now you are squirming to equate the attribute of lacking reality with the attribute of lacking importance.

This sort of thing is a habitual problem of your posting technique, ftD. You are readily capable of discussing events in factually grounded, non-loaded terminology. Yet instead of doing so you lace your posts with venom and unnecessary invective against all things southern or friendly to the south. You exaggerate and inflate negative attributes for no factually valid purpose, hence unimportance to you becomes a denial of reality all together. Remove the arsenic from your posts and people will take you more seriously. And I mean that as constructive criticism.