Not to compare, but I always admired Rhett Butler’s stand in “Gone With The Wind”. Here was this blockade runner who had railed such against the South entering into war, (”I’m the only cause I’m interested in.”) knowing how it was going to turn out, and just as the South is falling to it’s knees he runs off and joins the Confederacy.
Though that seems to have profited him too. But he couldn’t have known that at the time.
What a great story, all around.
I enjoyed it too.
One of it’s most clear points IMO, was the anticipation and eagerness to wage war. They made the South look like it was itching for it.
Then you see the devastation. I sometimes grow sad watching some folks relishing the idea of a CW2.
Every time I do, I flash back to the scenes of the Southerners thinking it would be over in short order, them winning it all.