Parallels in History | Beaufort County Now | History repeats itself

Parallels in History

By:  Charles Williams

• In 1861 Lincoln, after promising not to reinforce Fort Sumter to Confederate negotiators, surreptitiously sought to re-supply and reinforce the fort by sea resulting in the onset of the War of Northern Aggression.
• In 2022 Putin promised not to invade Ukraine and used “red flag” incidents and propaganda to invade the country.
• Lincoln proclaimed the war against the South was to Save the Union.
• Putin proclaimed that Ukraine was historically part of Russia and he was saving the country from “corrupt” leaders and Nazi influence.
• Ukraine operates as a democratically elected western democracy whose economy is based on free capitalism.
• The Confederate States were formed by the free exercise of the democratic process in the member states in the same manner as these states had chosen to join the United States after the revolution of 1776.
• Lincoln and his political friends in the North sought to strangle the South with a blockade by sea and navigable rivers.
• Putin seeks to strangle Ukraine by blockading the country by Naval and land forces.
• The North sought total war by total destruction through robbery, rape, and murder of the civilian population in the South. A notable example being the shelling of Atlanta and Sherman’s march to the sea in Georgia and his “bummers”, along with burning Columbia SC,
• Putin is indiscriminately shelling Ukrainian cities sheltering civilian populations including women and children.
• After the war, military rule was enforced for 8 years over 11 states that were supposedly reclaimed into the American Union.
• Putin seeks to install his own government (tyranny) in Ukraine.
• As a result of the war and the Northern Narrative, Lincoln was enshrined in national glory.
• Hopefully 50 years from now, Putin will not be enshrined in national glory as a result of Russian propaganda.