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Article #537Re: ???
From: hchickpea
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:43
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:43
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"Don K" <dk@dont_bother_me.com> wrote: ><hchickpea@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:450d6a18.43705981@news.earthlink.net... >> >> Whatever the costs of the civil war, the alternatives would have been >> far worse. The successful secession would have quickly opened the >> door for the Balkanization of the other states, and the weakening of >> the defensive power of the nation, leading to more battles between >> states and countries. Mexico would have surely taken Texas and the >> west, at considerable loss of life, the northern states would have had >> constant skirmishes over disputed land, Napoleon might have found >> Louisiana more enticing than Egypt, and more importantly, the outcome >> of WWII would have been vastly different. > >Omigosh! You've come around to the domino theory! Merely that the above are likely scenarios. Military success has been based on chance and weather as much as relative strengths. Kublai Khan invasion of Japan - thwarted by cyclone Spanish Armada vs English - defeated by bad weather British Invasion of Washington - cyclone Napolean invasion of Russia - snow Nazi invasion of Russia - snow, then mud etc. etc.
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