Did any war backfire more than the ACW?

The South started the war in 1861 to expand slavery into the Western territories and to prevent the eventual abolition of slavery. The war did the exact opposite. Instead of the US phasing out slavery in say 1880 it was totally abolished in 1865. Can you think of an idealogical war that as clearly resulted in the exact opposite its proponent desired?
 
well this is not ideological, but the Franco-Prussian war backfired big time.
The french declared war in the hope for a quick win, instead they got beaten into submission and it facilitated German unification.
 
If post 1900 is allowed for consideration, then German, Italian and Japanese wars. Could not have backfired any more than they actually did, with proponents vanquished in quite litteral sense of the word.
 
Not in this sense. For it to count as much in the way I mean it would mean that the Jews would have to rule Germany. That would be the exact opposite of what they wanted.

Well, Hitler equaled Soviets with Jewish, so in a sense this happened. He also despised Americans as 'mongrels' and in a sense they ruled West Germany at least for a period of time.
 
The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union certainly qualifies. What with replacing a 12-year Fascist Bloc with a half-century of Communist totalitarianism and providing the USSR a springboard to superpower status.
 
Not in this sense. For it to count as much in the way I mean it would mean that the Jews would have to rule Germany. That would be the exact opposite of what they wanted.

Hitler wanted to exterminate all the Slavs in a view that they were inferior and could not fight, and wound up replacing in half of Germany his totalitarian system with a mini-Stalinism that was imposed by Soviet bayonets for the timespan 1945-1991.
 

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French revolutionary wars, for those were fought in order to preserve revolution and expand it, but eventually saw revolution replaced by empire and then by monarchy.
 
Russo-Jap War, intended to extend Russian control from Manchuria into Korea. Actually extended Japanese influence the other way.
 
There's the war of Texan Independence which the total neener idiot Santa Anna started, deciding after decades of Texans and Mexico getting along that cracking down on Texas was a good idea. Result: one lost province, via the similarly amazing Battle of San Jacinto.
 
Hitler wanted to exterminate all the Slavs in a view that they were inferior and could not fight, and wound up replacing in half of Germany his totalitarian system with a mini-Stalinism that was imposed by Soviet bayonets for the timespan 1945-1991.

I guess that is one way to look at it. I just don't see it as quite as ironic.
 
The Confederates won in the nostalgia factor. Afterall, people love waving Confederate flags, hanging them outside, and wearing them. Therefore, I believe they did not suffer the worse backfire.
 
If Russia started the Russo-Japanese war, thinking they could beat easily 'inferior asian scum', well.. that count. Albeit postwar settlement could have been harder.
 
If post 1900 is allowed for consideration, then German, Italian and Japanese wars. Could not have backfired any more than they actually did, with proponents vanquished in quite litteral sense of the word.
But Italy, Germany and Japan are all extant countries nowadays, and quite considerable ones indeed. The CSA is not. The ACW ended with the destruction of a) the country as a political entity (although the individual states survived, so, well) b) the system the country was born to preserve in the first place c) the political power of the old elite. Italian defeat in WWII, while considerable, did not end up with the wholesale annexation of the peninsula to another state, or the recreation of pre-unitary duchies. Same thing for Japan. Germany is trickier, since it was divided for a long time after the war... and yes, of course, all the ideals (if you can define grand murder and massive enslavement of people as "ideals") the Nazis had fought for were utterly crushed. (Ok, maybe the reasons behind the Nazi fighting were a bit more complex; but the plan was undeniably to enslave a lot of people).
Austria as well, is still found on the map, though the degree of "backfireness" suffered by the Austrian Empire in 1918 is quite large.
I think some colonial wars may qualify.
 
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