/his/ is there any dumber meme in history than the civil war

>>2371543
>Implying secession was illegal before the civil war

>>2371543
Nukes=war crimes is pretty high up there too.

>>2371543
Augustus was the greatest Roman Emperor.
The Spartans weren't effective fighters.
That the average soldier in the Civil War fought for the beliefs and principles that it was began over.


>>2371555
The fact that nuclear weapons were demonised on both sides of the Iron Curtain is enough to suggest that even the victors, with the exception of a few loud-spoken kooks, saw their use as a crime against humanity.

>>2371572
>That the average soldier in the Civil War fought for the beliefs and principles that it was began over.

Explain more

Historians say the war was 'about slavery' as a tidy way to contextualize the causes of the civil war but then elaborate that point with hundreds of specific incidents & trends that ultimately led to the violent schism including the political & cultural divide between north and south.

/his/torians say it the war was 'about slavery' because they're parroting their teachers or wikipedia or other posters on 4chan and make passive aggressive threads about the people who don't agree with them

>>2371576
kys

>>2371555
How is dropping a bomb that obliterates everything in a wide area and condemns many more to agonizing death by radiation poisoning on a densely populated civilian area NOT a war crime?

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>>2371586
It was just a more effective form of firebombing desu.

>>2371576
What about it was so passive aggressive? I found it to be pretty normally aggressive.

>>2371575
While we have documented cases of members of the officer corps on both sides of the Civil War joined because of moral causes like freeing the slaves for Jesus or their inalienable rights, your average soldier in the Civil War fought because someone told him that Cletus/Yankee Doodle is coming to rape your wife, kill your children and burn your house down. Look at the New York Draft riots. When there was no fear of the South, there was no desire to fight it.

>>2371586
It's not a war crime if you win.

>>2371586


>drop lots of little bombs
>condemn thousands of people to agonising deaths from burns, injuries, infections or starvation
>not a war crime

>>2371543
Rome were the good guys