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It is important to be able to decode the language used in these rhetorical slogans. 'States Rights' wasn't about some sort of abstract conception of the autonomy of abstract generic states, but a specific defense of a particular group of related peoples under many political units, in alliance...

None of those are debilitating issues. If the Confederacy is able to win a war against a Union that both outnumbers and outproduces them, then they self evidentially have enough social solidarity, gehmeinschaft, togetherness-feeling to make collective sacrifices to solve the problems of victory.

Without Yankees stirring the pot supporting the insurgency, Maximilian has an easier time of things. Likely with or without French disengagement, as the natural tendency of a Confederacy Victorious is to look south for a Golden Circle trade block with Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.

A confederate victory likely means Maximilian's Mexican Empire survives for starters. And if either Britain or France, or both support a Mormon insurgency in Deseret, manifest destiny and the continental block ambitions of the upstart colonial republic could be contained, preventing a future...

Public opinion in both France and Britain, for different reasons, was that both had missed an opportunity to roll back World Revolution and Liberalism and also hamstring the rise of a Continental United States that would inevitably challenge the World Island for hegemony.