a) but your original statement was "If he was so good why could he not avoid a war?" Well obviously he could not have affected those chances either way BEFORE he was elected in late 1860, and by then war was indeed inevitable.
b) You keep changing the argument. We were discussing a post civil war world where the south wins. Now suddenly there was no war at all? Then if there was no war then would have been no secession either.
c) Not only tanks but 48 fractured independent states with a history of warfare and mistrust. I think you're barking up the wrong tree if you think the Soviets were not expansionist or opportunist.
d) Not one dollar? Obviously you aren't counting the billions of dollars made through spin off technologies. I myself had a glass of Tang just last night.
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