Taken and slightly modified from Facebook…

A French invasion of Mexico in 1862 to impose the Austrian Maximilian as the literal King of Mexico, during the American Civil War when the District of Columbia could not enforce the Monroe Doctrine, coupled with a British troop buildup in Canada, and Russian fleets in New York and San Francisco, among other facts, evince things happening that make the average textbook understanding of those times childish.

It is my opinion that wars happen for reasons primarily economic in nature. It is my opinion that ideals – like freeing the slaves (which Lincoln only rendered as a propaganda stroke after the war had started) – are mere smokescreens for the masses, and attempts to put a moral spin on killing. It is my opinion that the American Civil War is the manifestation of international geopolitics, a manifestation of the Game of Empire that is at the heart of 19th century history.

Granted, I need to do more research. Granted, I could be talking out of my behind. However…

I believe the British Empire, along with France (France having become Britannia’s junior partner in dividing up the world after Napoleon’s final defeat in 1815) helped foment division in the American Union – or at least massively took advantage of this serendipitous chaos – for the sake of dividing the growing and awesome power of the United States, and, with luck, better harnessing and, in time, controlling it.

I think Lincoln saw this geopolitical ploy by the two greatest empires on earth in those times – Britain and France. I think his zeal to “Save the Union” was zeal to maintain full sovereign control over the American landmass by the District of Columbia, as opposed to having it chipped away into the orbit of the City of London, as could have happened with the South getting rich selling its cotton to Britannia. The de facto commercial marriage between Britannia and the Confederacy would have been exploited far more heavily by the City of London had the Confederacy won.

I think Russian Czar, the great and perpetual enemy of the British Empire, saw this power-play by Britain and France, and sent his navies to American ports as a warning against executing their brilliant schemes, which failed. I think America and Russia were joining hands to hem in the influence of the British-French Axis which was attempting to literally control the world through their commercial empires. I could explain more of this de facto American-Russian axis, but, I need to research more.

Regardless, where there’s smoke, there’s fire – and there was great fire in the 19th century machinations like the world had never seen before. The 19th century Orders set up the 20th century Orders. It’s all such an amazing story.

Again, my point is to think that wars are fought only for the reasons provided by government-school textbooks is to severely limit your understanding of how the world really works.

Hence, childish.

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PS… I arbitrarily chose the Battle of Puebla from Cinco de Mayo 1862 because what in tarnation was a French army doing in Mexico? What was it doing fighting Mexicans?

To me, the presence of tens of thousands of French soldiers in Mexico, in flagrant violation of America’s Monroe Doctrine promising to repulse European colonization and invasion in the Western Hemisphere after 1823, evinces that there was a lot more going on than some random crusade by Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves.