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pnutjam · 2022-05-26 · Original thread
Read this: https://www.amazon.com/1861-Civil-Awakening-Adam-Goodheart/d...

This is exactly what happened during the civil war. Union army was reluctant and refused to engage in combat, letting Confederate forces withdraw instead. Some yahoo ambushed a well known Union Officer and killed him to support the confederacy and the gloves came off.

Imagine how quickly knowledge of this sort of incident would spread in todays world vs 1861.

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