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For the Southerners to have aligned themselves on the side of the Rothschilds and English mercantilists against Lincoln was entirely similar to somebody aligning with the English in the revolutionary war. You can't really expect a whole lot of mercy or sympathy when you do stuff like that.

I can't blame the South for doing that, when you're at war and when your back is against the wall, you try looking for allies to support you. Of course your allies or potential allies might have motives or reasons of their own to help you. I know during the American Revolution, France and Spain helped us, they were beaten by the British and wanted their pound of flesh, helping us achieved that goal.

Finland did the same thing in World War II against the Soviets. I have a friend in Sweden, born in Finland and migrated to Sweden, whose grandfather fought alongside the Nazis against the Soviets. Finland did a good job of handling the Soviets but needed some help and Germany extended her hand in assistance. I know when your back is against the wall, many times you would accept help first and asked questions later. Still, getting back to the subject of this article, Finland did tell the Germans to not harm any of their Jews and many Finnish Jews fought well against the Soviets.

The South was in the same boat, they needed to be able to stave off the North as well as they can, if they were more successful, perhaps they would have had more allies. Word has it that if the south won Gettysburg, the British were likely to step in and either give aid to the South or at least help broker a deal between the two countries to stop the war and let each go its own way. If I may wargame a bit, if I was the South, I'd look for allies anywhere I can, if it meant survival, had Red China and the USSR existed then, I would probably seek their aid since those were the rival powers. The bad thing is they they might want something in return that I would not want to do or give up.