I got the war of Northern Aggression excuse once. “The north unfairly attacked you?” Yup. “It wasn’t over slavery”. No. “So you were just about to give up all your slaves on your own and the north just attacked you anyway?” Well, no…
and the confederate states attacked first anyways.
it wasn't just that the confederacy went "nuh uh", or that they declared war, or that they clearly states in their letters of secession why they were seceding.
they legit drew first blood when they attacked fort Sumter.
A nice (racist) SC docent told me that the fort was in SC’s harbor, and the Feds started to reinforce it, which was the first “aggression” lol as in, “but they started it!!”
Russians did the same thing recently in Ukraine. Lined up massive amounts of troops and tanks on the border, then called it a training exercise and complained about Ukraine bringing in troops to attack
Despite what they claim to the contrary, they attacked because they were losing their grip over Ukraine and had they joined NATO, they would have genuinely lost the territory of Ukraine forever. They genuinely think of Ukraine as an extension of Russia and not its own sovereign country.
So Vlad’s fantasy of a reconstructed Great Russia is worth the hundreds of thousands of lives this war has cost…he really believes himself to be a Tsar. May he soon share their fate!
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u/Similar_Disaster7276 Jul 11 '24
Hence “The War of Northern Aggression”. They were being super aggressive about our practice of slavery. So mean!