Is there any way the war against the South can be justified other than "might makes right"?
>slavery
So? Brazil still had slavery in the 1860s. Arabia did until the 1960s. Should Abe Lincoln have invaded Brazil and Arbaia? You don't get to just invade countries because you don't like their domestic policies, even if those domestic policies really are awful.
>treason
It's not treason to want to be left alone.
>>136001841
you do realise the rational was not slavery but that the states do not have the right to secede
>>136001841
slavery wasn't even the question in the begining.
>>136001841
>You don't get to just invade countries because you don't like their domestic policies, even if those domestic policies really are awful
Yes you do. If the nation is strong enough, what you "get" to do is irrelevant.
>>136001841
Lincoln didn't give 2 shits about slavery, if the southern states had never seceded, things would have been fine, and the nogs would die out. But middle class women with too much time on their hands and cucked white husbands started complaining for abolition of slavery. Every single stupid decision in the US is led by those kinds of people.