[HangUpNow]

"Confederate military assault" is funny. INSTEAD OF "defense of sovereignty from a designed North-concocted sh*t-stirring operation." But that's how defenders of Lincoln need to frame the Ft Sumter incident.

That said, there also seems to be a lot of conflating of select ambiguity and uninformed facts on the subject on the CW; Par for the course.

I reckon it's to help mask Lincoln's subterfuge, coercive fascism, and tyranny that's masqueraded as the "Honest Abe" who "held the Union together (with a literal gun to the head of a subjugated South.)

[PeaRidge]

Yes, Lincoln came to office in peace and turned it into war within five weeks. His problems were caused by the wealthy elites in Boston and New York who were forcing him to block trade between Europe and the South, and reestablish the money flow from tariffs.

[BroJoeK]

HangUpNow misaddressing to someone named broJoe: " 'Confederate military assault' is funny.
INSTEAD OF 'defense of sovereignty from a designed North-concocted sh*t-stirring operation.'
But that's how defenders of Lincoln need to frame the Ft Sumter incident."

Nonsense.
The Confederate military assault on Fort Sumter was equivalent in its day to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, or today to a possible Cuban assault on US forces at Guantanamo Bay.

They were not just provocations of war, they were the actual start of war.
Whatever their reasons might have been, Confederate actions were acts of war, period.