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Great post thanks. My take is the Americas and America has been at war since before it existed. Colonized by hostile warlike Europeans ( my ancestry mostly European) nearly all who originally served the East India Company of London did not come in peace. They were warriors and administrators - able representatives of European royalty. Any history but that is almost certainly fantasy. Native Americans did not take kindly to being colonised and exterminated. What we are experiencing today is a long violent history. There was a respite when the founding ancestors got a notion to found a Nation based on the unalienable rights of the individual but they proved in deed they never truly understood what that meant. It was a great idea - still is.

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Jun 21, 2023·edited Jun 21, 2023Liked by Scipio Eruditus

Along these lines, see "The Best Enemy Money Can Buy" by Antony Sutton (1986), which describes how the US govt (and the Council on Foreign Relations network) supported the Soviet Union before its engineered collapse: archive.org/details/antony-sutton-the-best-enemy-money-can-buy/mode/1up

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May 1, 2023Liked by Scipio Eruditus

I will be reading the book on Lincoln. Thanks for recommending it. I would love to hear your thoughts on the other factors that led to the Civil War. Was slavery just one bad part of the Confederacy that has since been weaponized and used to vilify the Confederacy?

I’m getting the idea that Lincoln acted illegally... but then I thought that the South was funded by the British Empire (and Lincoln’s assassin was connected to British intelligence...?). I’m a little muddled as to who planned what here. Hopefully the Lincoln book can help me understand a bit better.

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The reply to this comment could be its own article. It’s something I’m still trying to piece together myself.

To simplify it, much of what we have been told about this war is false. Slavery was dying out in the South, technology would have replaced slavery in about 20-30 years. Only 1% of the Confederate citizens owned 75% of the slaves. On the surface this war was primarily about economics and taxation, not slavery; Lincoln could have cared less about the slaves and he wanted to ship them all back to Africa.

There is also the very strange case of the Lincoln assassination. Dave McGowan wrote an exceptional essay on the attacks that night and why they were most likely faked. (The Booth family, including John Wilkes Booth, were all high level Masons.)

https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/lincoln/

That adds another curveball to the prevailing narratives of this war that still has me scratching my head.

It’s chaos on all fronts, but the Civil War was with out a doubt the death of the Constitutional order. The bankers funded both sides and profited handsomely from their investments. If nothing else, it destroyed the idea of consent of the governed on this continent and empowered the Federal government to such an extent that we have been enthralled in its grip ever since.

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No political solution.

The “civil” war enslaved us all. And every civil war historically.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4frelkLhC4ATqJH9VGJztu?si=2QHv7jgHR3670yRpXV4-kQ

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