[stand watie]

while i am NOT a historian (instead, i'm "a policy wonk" for a NGO. full disclosure, my graduate studies/degrees are in Public Administration & Political Science.), i believe it likely that i'm as well read, on the antebellum/WBTS/reconstruction period, as you claim to be.

sorry, but as to your thesis on European Intervention or INTENT to intervene, the TRUTH is that you have provided NOTHING that is persuasive. as for the Federalist Papers (YES, i've read several in school days/daze.) they are IRRELEVANT to a study of "union" in the mid-19th century, despite your protestations to the contrary.

the FACT that BOTH GB & France desired a FREE "dixie trading partner" has NOTHING whatever to do with desiring a reestablishment of an "American empire", (after a WIN by the south in the WBTS). frankly, that idea is simply, BUNK & HOKEM.

imVho, your decision to declare "this exchange at an end" is, at least in part, based on your understanding that you have convinced NOBODY of the truth of your (rather odd) thesis.

free dixie,sw

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i'm "a policy wonk"

You're half-right.

But I guess posting here makes all of us "policy wonks" whether we were wonks to begin with or not.