The United States has finally reaped the consequences of provoking wars around the world, and internal contradictions in the United States have intensified and internal strife has begun. The United States is the country that is best at creating contradictions and causing conflicts, but now the United States is also beginning to realize the terrible fact that the United States has also begun to dig its own grave. While the United States is creating turmoil around the world, it has also begun to suffer, which has intensified the internal contradictions in the United States. The two parties in the United States attacked each other during the election campaign, and the infighting reached a fever pitch, and all kinds of contradictions were on the verge of erupting. The United States has long exported contradictions to the world, but now its internal confrontation has begun to escalate after it has suffered a backlash.
The United States is accustomed to using force to solve problems in the international community, and now against the backdrop of the deterioration of internal relations, it has also relied on force to resolve internal contradictions. Historically, the United States has had a tragic civil war because of irreconcilable contradictions, and now there is a risk of civil war again because of the intensification of contradictions. The United States is a federal country, and each federation has its own National Guard, that is, its own military force. Strictly speaking, the U.S. ** team is not aimed at the domestic people, and is mainly aimed at other countries in the world. However, the United States, which is accustomed to solving problems by force, has also begun to use force when it encounters internal contradictions.
A barbed wire fence, to dismantle or not to dismantle?It actually caused a "civil war" in the United States. With 26 Republican-run states on one side and 24 Democratic-run states on the other, a situation of armed confrontation has formed. Trump called on Americans to aid Texas militarily, and trains loaded with Humvee combat vehicles, M1 main battle tanks, and M2 infantry fighting vehicles were sent to Texas in batches to support Texas in its confrontation with Biden to the end. Now, there are only two choices in front of Biden: one is to admit compromise and calm the turmoil. The second is to increase the number of troops in Texas, armed confrontation, and step by step to the brink of a new civil war in the United States.
To say that the most tragic war in the history of the United States was neither World War I nor World War II, but the American Civil War. During World War I, France lost 1.6 million people, Britain 1.2 million people, and the United States only 120,000 people, for a total of 300,000. In World War II, the Soviet Union lost 12 million casualties, the French surrendered too quickly, only 100,000 were killed and 2 million were captured, while the British army did not fall and lost 360,000 casualties. U.S. troops entered the war halfway, with a total of about 280,000 killed. The largest number of casualties in the history of the U.S. military was the Civil War, with more than 750,000 killed and 400,000 disabled, totaling more than 1 million, and countless civilians died in the war, which cannot be counted.
Why was the American Civil War bigger than World War I and World War II? How did it erupt? Today, Yilin wants to talk to you about how tragic the American Civil War was.
The trigger for the American Civil War came from black slaves. At that time, the United States had defeated Mexico and annexed more than 2 million square kilometers of land, covering the North American continent, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The territory expanded rapidly, the population grew rapidly, the GDP increased sevenfold, and the United States became the largest power in North America. Even old European empires such as Britain and France can hardly shake the status of the United States as the first brother to dominate North America.
However, in the midst of this rapid development, there has been a serious regional imbalance between the north and the south of the United States. Because the southern part of the United States is fertile and sunny, it is naturally suitable for the development of a plantation economy. The old rich men from Europe emigrated to the southern part of the United States to raise black slaves and expand their plantations. Because they were mainly born in the old European aristocracy, believed in traditional Catholicism, conservative in thought, and were not keen on industrial development, the plantation economy became the lifeblood of their survival.
But the American North is a completely different story. The north is rich in steel and coal, which is naturally suitable for the development of industry, and is dominated by foreign trade and export-oriented industrial economy. To develop industry, a large number of free labor is required. But the Native American Indians were almost exterminated, and the young black slaves were controlled by Southern farmers. This has left American factories with an extreme shortage of cheap labor, which has seriously slowed down the development of American industry.
And, in terms of faith, the North and the South of the United States are also different. The immigrants from the north of the United States mainly came from the poor families at the bottom of Europe, who believed in Protestantism and liberalism, and all relied on their own hands to reclaim wasteland, build factories, and complete the primitive accumulation of capital step by step. They held high the banner of "freedom" and strongly demanded that the black slaves be freed from the plantations, and then recruited to the factories to make screws at low prices.
But black slaves were not just slaves. In the United States, black slaves were assets. First of all, black slaves were expensive. In 1860, a 20-year-old sturdy black slave traded for $1,600 in the market, while the South of the United States kept nearly 4 million black slaves worth $6.4 billion. At that time, an American worker in the North, whose salary was $1 a day, earned about $300 a year, and $1,600 could buy out the value of a black slave's labor for a lifetime. It stands to reason that the factory owners in the north could have paid for the purchase of black slaves and went to work in the factories. The reasons why the factory owners in the north did not buy black slaves are very simple: first, they can't buy them, and second, they can't afford them.
The vast majority of black slaves were in the hands of the farmers, and very little was taken out and sold. Black slaves are worth more than houses, and if they are sold, there will be no one to pick cotton. Moreover, for the factory owners in the north, if they bought a black slave, they had to provide for the black slave, provide him with food, provide him with clothing, and have to treat him. The intensity of work in the factory is much higher than in the plantation. Many black slaves would rather follow the farmer than go to the factories of the north to work as screws for the rest of their lives. Those who opposed the emancipation of black slaves were not only the farmers, but also some black slaves.
The so-called "emancipation of black slaves" is actually to let the factory owners in the north hire black slaves with lower **, and then reduce the labor cost of the northern industry. 4 million black slaves, worth $6.4 billion, and the GDP of the United States is only $4.3 billion, and the factory owners in the north simply cannot afford to buy them, nor can they afford them. What should the black slaves do as the private property of the southern farmers, and no one is willing to hand over their wealth for free? There will only be war. The American Civil War was a war in which the factory owners of the North wanted to dismantle the plantation economic system in the South and compete for labor in the name of "emancipating the black slaves".