cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/52037676

Dont show this to the US China hawks.

There were no "Union" it was "The United States" and "The Confederacy".

In Australia we say it was union forces against the confederacy. No idea what the Americans say

Ed to add I am presuming you aren't American since you're wearing a nationally specific instance name

Now the confederacy is eating the US from the inside.

All because the US lost their nerve during reconstruction.

A coworker once told me that the Confederacy was doomed because the Union had superior industrial might. I told him that sounds like wisdom in English, but in Vietnamese it's a joke.

The United States, even in times of peace before and since the Civil War, is often referred to as "the Union". So it's the same thing.

That's the difference between a limited and total war.
During world war 2, the US produced enough combat vehicles to fit all Americans serving concurrently in Vietnam, while building mote than one ship a day, engineering nuclear bombs and supplying their allies.