[central_va]

The South was not trying to conquer the North. It was in a war to separate from the North. The USA would have gone on without the South and been just hunkydory. There was no existential threat to the North.

[Bidimus1]

NO.

The Union could have stopped fighting but in no military sense could the Confederacy win the war.

The anaconda strategy worked.

[i_robot73]

Exactly. It was NEVER a ‘Civil War’ (to overthrow the govt of another). Once the South lost, the idea of States’ Rights (9th and 10th) died as well.

But, history is written by the victors and the Left sure knows how to twist words into different meanings; 180 to their original (IE: Liberals).

[WhirlwindAttack]

If the South had used the tactics of total war and destroyed the means for the North to pursue war manufacturing and transportation, The South would have won.

[x]

There was no existential threat to the North.

If the Davis regime had its way, Washington DC would be deep within Confederate territory. There would be Confederate forces 50 miles outside Philadelphia, and just a little over 100 miles from Lake Erie, poised to cut the country in half. We'd have a very long fortified border, perhaps stretching to the Pacific, and plenty of tension. How existential do you want to get?

[jmacusa]

Believe in unicorns and fairy tales don’t you General?