Independence Day

Nearly a century after the "declaration of independence," the United States faced its most tragic event: the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in its history. The prevailing historical narrative, the article argues, perpetuates a myth that the South clung to slavery while the North fought for moral principles, a view it dismisses as baseless.

The core reason for the conflict, according to the author, was an asymmetry in integrating into the global economic system. The South, with its expansive export-oriented economy, favored global trade liberalization. In contrast, the North pursued a highly protectionist strategy to shield its developing industrial infrastructure, creating a fundamental conflict that led to the secession.

While the North was indeed interested in emancipation, the article contends this was not due to superior moral conviction but rather driven by raw economic interests. It points out that the wages offered to freed slaves as "free" laborers only reached the level of their former "slave rations" five years after emancipation, coinciding with the wartime boom of World War I. This suggests that the "freedom" of former slaves served the North's objective of exploitation, which was even more brutal than slavery itself.

The North's victory, therefore, was not founded on moral superiority but on a more effective "exploitation technology." The article further links this to the global financial powers of the time, identifying the emerging financial structures on Wall Street in New York as a key contact point for the City of London. This paved the way for the "transposition" of global power from London to New York, marked by the Federal Reserve's establishment in 1913, and the subsequent rise of the United States as a global empire.

The author concludes by framing the World Wars as a "Thirty Years' War project" designed to facilitate this power shift. The U.S. ultimately became the largest concentration of power in history, ironically achieving this through the development of the atomic bomb, whose intellectual foundations were laid in German institutions. The narrative suggests America consistently found itself "in the right place at the right time," enabling its ascent to global dominance.