When is UK/France most likely to recognize the CSA?

[Blair]

Its Antietam Day today, and in regards to the question id say whichever recognizes the state the other will follow suit.

 

[Fiver]

Its Antietam Day today, and in regards to the question id say whichever recognizes the state the other will follow suit.

France was only going to recognize the Confederacy if Britain did. Britain was only going to recognize the Confederacy if they won their independence. Foreign intervention was a pipe dream.

 

[jkay]

Fiver's right, especially since the Confederate "diplomacy" had alot in common with "Old Europe" Rumsfeld's.