If the Confederacy wins the American Civil War, is the Union going to become revanchist over the next several decades and beyond? In other words, being similar to post-1991 Russia and fantasizing about regathering its lost territories, if necessary, by force? Would the issue of escaped Confederate slaves fleeing up North eventually force this issue in the US? Or would a victorious Confederacy gain allies among the British, French, and/or et cetera and thus make an eventual Union reconquest of the Confederacy impossible? And would European powers actually be willing to support a country that still maintains slavery? I know that the Confederacy flirted with emancipation at the very end, but that was only when it was losing the war; here, this might not occur since the Confederacy might perform better on the battlefield and thus might feel that there is less of a need for it to make concessions on the slavery issue.
Anyway, what do you think?
Anyway, what do you think?