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This seems like a more direct threat to me.

The only invasion I’m seeing is US Navy vessels encircling the island and threatening their economy.

Saying this on the same day that Chinese warships encircled Taiwan.

To be clear, I would support a democratic successor to the confederation that respects human rights and comes to terms with its past, and is threatened by an authoritarian Union that does not respect human rights. However, I don’t think this analogy is helpful at all.

I wish more countries would support Taiwan as the US does. I would particularly like to see my country take a stronger stance on this issue. Unlike China, Taiwan is a free and democratic state today. Taiwan has been a de facto independent state since 1949.

Taiwan never had been under PRCs control. The Union and Confederacy aren’t comparable to PRC and ROC.

But, if in your analogy the civil war ended decades ago and the successor of the Confederacy would be under the threat of invasion by the Union, of course it could be justified to arm the successor of the Confederacy and to defend them in case of war.

On the other hand, in the analogy, nations could ignore one of the sides in case of slavery, aggressive foreign policies, general human rights abuses, global strategy and economics or whatever.