Comment on When your entire economy is one export and your opponent owns the factories

ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually, I’m surprised that isn’t a bigger talking point in how the war went.

  I’m suddenly curious what the ramifications of a much lower supply of nicotine was on the Union army. Reading Tobacco by Iain Gately, it seems like tobacco was a near necessity (esp among the upper class -which would have been the officers of the armies), so I wonder how many bad decisions were made while one general or captain was going through some major withdrawals.

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