[mac_truck]

Your logic is even more "interesting" since no other sovereign EVER recognized the Confederacy, while the United States sovereignty is unquestioned. Try again.

[groanup]

"Your logic is even more "interesting" since no other sovereign EVER recognized the Confederacy, while the United States sovereignty is unquestioned."

You guys are a trip. The Soviet Union was recognized. Would you have worked to overthrow it? Try again.

[GOPcapitalist]

Your logic is even more "interesting" since no other sovereign EVER recognized the Confederacy, while the United States sovereignty is unquestioned.

Incorrect. The Pope recognized the confederacy. He was the lone power to do so, though, I might add, also the power that established the precedent of recognizing government legitimacy about 1000 years prior.