[DL] Re: What Happened to the Union?

[Nyarlathothep132@aol.com]

I'm afraid Great Britain, while a Naval superpower, was NOT a military one in the strict land forces sense of the word. Stretched very thin all over the place, it was mostly an "Keep the Indians happy" force rather than a "Put up a fight against an organized military" force.

The CSA, even with Britain's help (or AK-47's, for that matter), could never swamp the Union.

And Britain depended economically on the Union markets and grain production. There's even a strong pro-Union segment of British politics during the war. I really don't think it's plausible the British would actually *attack* the Union. It'd be insanity. Support the CSA economically (gives the British industries a market, after all), but military aid is right out- the British still have to worry about France and Germany, not to mention Russia, as other powers in Europe. With the Union moving close to Germany and Russia (according to ToT, at least), the British really can't afford World War 1877, no matter how much the [redacted] would want it to happen.