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Americans love to imagine the civil war was as important as WW2, and in both cases they ensured that the bad guys would thrive in the peace that followed
It was really important. This is a really reactionary take.
Not that crushing slavery wasn't important, but the history of the civil war specifically is relevant to Americans mostly and far less so to the rest of the world (especially because WW2 is much more recent).
To be fair, out of all the American shit the the rest of the world has to absorb into their brains on the daily, the civil war was a Real Important Event compared to most of it.
It was actually kind of a big testing ground and innovation space for a lot of military technologies of the time. So it was important to the wider world, if only for that.
Kinda like how Ukraine and Russia’s war is being watched now.