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First of all, I've noticed you positing quite a few nonsense claims as if they were facts, over the last few days. In this thread alone, you seem to have totally made up a story about Lincoln being enthousiastically in favour of threatening war with Britain. The opposite was true. I explained...

If the CSA wins by intervention of foreign powers, then the CSA functionally becomes a protectorate of said powers. Hilariously, this makes it all Britain's problem (because, let's face it, it'd be Britain). Britain hated slavery way more than most Republicans did, so in most cases, most Britain...

My poin is more that the occasionally-touted idea that the USA would embargo the CSA because they're a bunch of evil slavocrats doesn't hold up. The war wasn't really about that (for the Union, at least). And then you're left with "we buy from the slavers right next door" versus "we buy from the...

Because manufacturing and industry in the North relied on raw materials from the South, the USA would have a vested interest in normalising relations after the war. They can import raw materials from elsewhere, but it would be more difficult and costly. The most obvious alternative source for...