[DiogenesLamp]

So the Confederacy in early 1861 represented a more existential threat to the United States than Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan ever dreamed of being 80 years later.

No, the war was the fault of that man (and his masters) that sent 35,000 men into other people's land to force them back under the subjugation of Washington DC and it's masters, the Wealthy Elite of New York.

The wealthy elite of the Empire City of New York are still running the show today.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "the war was the fault of that man (and his masters) that sent 35,000 men into other people's land to force them back under the subjugation of Washington DC and it's masters, the Wealthy Elite of New York."

For over 70 years, from 1788 through 1860 Washington DC had groaned under subjugation to the Southern slavocracy.
Then miraculously in 1860 the first openly anti-slavery majority ever was elected, but before they even took office Slavocrats began declaring secession.
Secessionists then soon provoked, started, declared and waged war on the United States months before a single Confederate soldier was killed in battle and before any Union Army invaded a single Confederate states.

Those are facts which make your pro-Confederate propaganda just cockamamie nonsense.