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The French only have a significant presence in Louisianna.

And on the stock exchanges, property owning companies, oil companies and amongst Catholics.

Most of the South is populated by people of British origin - Scots (Protestant Scots-Irish of Appalachia), English and Welsh (descended from Cavalier Virginia colonists - very different from the Puritan English who settled in New England).

Yes today, mostly replacing murdered southerners.
One has only to look at the place names in the South to see where different groups settled, north too of course. The New England area is called that for a reason.

The Spanish ceased to be a presence in the Confederate South long before the Civil War ever occured.

Okay, I wasn't making myself clear. I was referring to the geographically southern states as in along the southern border, which expanded the US southwards.





The US was war with them a few decades earlier, and the Habsburgs still ruled Mexico at the end of the civil war, and wanted some US states back.

The Catholic Spanish, French and Italians and their corporations and churches have immense property holdings and also influence in the US and Mexico.

The US revolution was a proxy war between Britain, France and Spain, part of the wider wars in Europe. Without French backing, it would not have happened.

If the French had not been defeated by the British at Waterloo, soon afterwards, French and Spanish armies would have landed and taken over the Americas.

Bear in mind that two thirds of the colonial populations at the time of the revolution did not support independence from Britain, and that at the time of the revolution, Britain was already engaged in global wars.

The revolutionaries faced a very small fraction of British troops, over a territory with very little financial value, when compared to say the island plantations Britain was fighting France for.
Just the sugar trade was worth more than Britain was making from the US at the time.

The later civil war was also a proxy war, part of the wider wars across Europe.

Britain was taking back control of the US, via the Yankees in the civil war, when it got caught up in the Prussian wars, and had to withdraw.

Who financed and armed and drove the north during the civil war? Who owned the northern corporations and banks etc? Less than 80 years before, they had been British and their economies till depended on trade with Britain.

European countries are heavily involved in US politics.

After WW2, most of the British aristocracy and intelligentsia moved their sons to Australia, Canada and the US, and expanded European corporations into the US, controlled by their families back home.

Europe was down and out after WW2, that is no longer the case, and it is beginning to flex its muscles again.

It knows that the US is the only obstacle to it regaining its territories overseas. It is quite content to let the US reconquer the former French and British territories across North Africa and the Middle East, bankrupting itself, and then removing itself as a player on the world field, after which they can just take these territories back.

Europe has not forgotten that the US federales Jews and Whites extended WW1 from 1916 to 1918, and WW2 from 1941 to 1945, and kept the USSR going for almost a century so as to be able to control Europe, not to liberate it.

US missiles and troops forced European countries into the EU, and extremely damaging trade and finance arrangements.
Europe had almost removed the Jews entirely from Europe, the US brought them back into Europe, where they only thrive due to US protection.

Germany put the Jews into camps with clinics, brothels and swimming pools. The rest of Europe put Jews underground.

Most Wall street firms and banks are not owned by Americans, but by Jews, Europeans, Asians and Arabs, none of which have any interest in seeing the US survive.

Europe has been quiet as it recovers from losing 12 million in WW1, 20 million thereafter due to Spanish flu, 50 million during WW2. To lose 82 million people dead, as well as at least that many permanently crippled in less than a hundred years, as well as 40 million babies aborted since WW2, is a shock to any area.

Add to that the loss of the colonies, and Europe has had reason to lie quietly, resting and recovering. Most of the losses, and the existence of the USSR, were due to US interference in Europe and Asia. Europe has not forgotten that.

The US has been the only player on the world stage since WW2, as the former superpowers lay exhausted.
Nothing lasts forever.