And if they hadn't fired first, would the union troops have packed up their supplies and munitions and shipped out on their warships? Because that's the only situation in which it would have been a trap. It was an act of war.
The fort wasn't going to effect anything. The south could have left it alone. Lincoln resupplied after the south said to leave it. It was a staring contest and the North won it. Lincoln wanted them to be fired upon, and the South wanted to be seen as just defending their home. Instead the South looked like the aggressors and Lincoln used that.
The south could've left it alone? That's insane. It's just as insane as expecting Russia not to react to an expansion of NATO. The south had seceded, so the union had no right to maintain military presence.
You're intentionally dodging the question of what Lincoln was going to do with those reinforced, resupplied troops.
Nothing, leave them there to get shot at. Of course both sides could claim to be in the right, but only one side can fire first. Lincoln wanted that fort fired on, and it got fired on.
That's ludicrous and you know it. Any leader would consider a heavily armed and supplied force at their doorstep an act of aggression because there's no real expectation that they're just going to sit there. You don't ship weapons and supplies to soldiers so they can just sit there.
You're being intentionally obtuse because you want the north to be in the right.
And if they hadn't fired first, would the union troops have packed up their supplies and munitions and shipped out on their warships? Because that's the only situation in which it would have been a trap. It was an act of war.
The fort wasn't going to effect anything. The south could have left it alone. Lincoln resupplied after the south said to leave it. It was a staring contest and the North won it. Lincoln wanted them to be fired upon, and the South wanted to be seen as just defending their home. Instead the South looked like the aggressors and Lincoln used that.
The south could've left it alone? That's insane. It's just as insane as expecting Russia not to react to an expansion of NATO. The south had seceded, so the union had no right to maintain military presence.
You're intentionally dodging the question of what Lincoln was going to do with those reinforced, resupplied troops.
Nothing, leave them there to get shot at. Of course both sides could claim to be in the right, but only one side can fire first. Lincoln wanted that fort fired on, and it got fired on.
That's ludicrous and you know it. Any leader would consider a heavily armed and supplied force at their doorstep an act of aggression because there's no real expectation that they're just going to sit there. You don't ship weapons and supplies to soldiers so they can just sit there.
You're being intentionally obtuse because you want the north to be in the right.