A truly surprising analysis from a zombie deep-state publication like Newsweek.
The Civil War analogy is a good one, and works in many ways. The UK, the the hegemon/empire of the day (like the USA now), could have thrown in with the South to create a festering wound for the North, as the USA is doing against Russia. They did not.
The British were busy elsewhere (against Russia) to commit too much aid to the Confederacy - and Lincoln invited the Russian fleet to winter in US ports - particularly NY City.
https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2022/02/150-years-ago-russians-invaded-new-york.html
“The Civil War analogy is a good one, and works in many ways.”
One way it works is that Putin’s attack on Kiyv was the high point of his war (Gettysburg), and he has been on defensive pretty much ever since.
One of the characters in the novel addressed in my Comment #58, was an Englishman named Arthur Fremantle, who actually did return to England and wrote a book about his experiences and the Confederacy. Published 3 months before the Civil War ended, he predicted the South would win. In the novel he explains that England will not enter on the South’s side because of the controversial “slavery” question. The novel describes the Southern NON USE of the word “slaves” and the preferred use of the word “servent.” Kind of like Putin’s unwillingness to use the word “war.”
Putin mistakenly thinks of the Ukranians as wayward Russians. He does not seem to acknowledge that a core of Ukraine was the Cossack people who were brutally taken over by the Bolshevicks after WW1. The Cossacks had a much more “democratic” form of leadership which worked much better than the the collectivist land usage so unsuccessfully promoted by the factory system oriented Bolshevicks and Marxist theory.