"if you leave out the two world wars, there was less war before 1945!" is a hell of a take.
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America found time during the fucking civil war to stir up trouble both among indigenous people and the goddamn Japanese
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like American belligerence domestically and abroad has always been staggeringly kaleidoscopic
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Like imagine literally fighting a war for the fabric of your republic and also having the time, energy and drive to help out your European buddies spread imperialist hegemony in the Shimonoseki Straits
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The two were inextricably politically linked, the people who thought it was worth fighting a war to keep the country together thought so because they wanted the country to be a global Great Power
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I mean the stuff about the war not really being about slavery is true -- for the Union It was absolutely about slavery for the Confederacy
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The actual hardcore abolitionists, the SJWs of their day, were not in charge The typical "Unionist" was essentially the kind of person you think of as "natsec Twitter"
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(And just to hammer in the point that there's no one who'd map cleanly onto our modern idea of "good guys", the SJWs of the 1860s were also almost all hardcore Christians, and just as judgmental about "sexual immorality" as owning slaves)
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Like they simultaneously stayed on Lincoln's ass for being a moderate who refused to commit to abolition and for being a secular dude who didn't personally attend church They thought one explained the other
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