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Later describing his motive, Czar Alexander II said:

Later describing his motive, Czar Alexander II said:

{{Cquote|In the Autumn of 1862, the governments of France and [[Great Britain]] proposed to Russia, in a formal but not in an official way, the joint recognition by [[Europe]]an powers of the independence of the [[Confederate States of America]]. My immediate answer was: 'I will not cooperate in such action; and I will not acquiesce. On the contrary, I shall accept the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States by France and Great Britain as a ''casus belli'' for Russia. And in order that the [[government]]s of France and Great Britain may understand that this is no idle threat; I will send a [[Pacific]] fleet to San Francisco and an Atlantic fleet to New York…

{{Cquote|In the Autumn of 1862, the governments of France and [[Great Britain]] proposed to [[Russia]], in a formal but not in an official way, the joint recognition by [[Europe]]an powers of the independence of the [[Confederate States of America]]. My immediate answer was: 'I will not cooperate in such action; and I will not acquiesce. On the contrary, I shall accept the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States by France and Great Britain as a ''casus belli'' for Russia. And in order that the [[government]]s of France and Great Britain may understand that this is no idle threat; I will send a [[Pacific]] fleet to San Francisco and an Atlantic fleet to New York…

All this I did because of [[love]] for my own dear Russia… I acted thus because I understood that Russia would have a more serious task to perform if the American Republic, with advanced industrial development were broken up and Great Britain should be left in control of most branches of modern industrial development.<ref>[https://badlands.substack.com/p/how-canada-was-created-to-block-us How Canada Was Created to Block US-Russian Cooperation], MATTHEW EHRET, JUL 01, 2024. badlands.substack.com</ref>}}

All this I did because of [[love]] for my own dear Russia… I acted thus because I understood that Russia would have a more serious task to perform if the American Republic, with advanced industrial development were broken up and Great Britain should be left in control of most branches of modern industrial development.<ref>[https://badlands.substack.com/p/how-canada-was-created-to-block-us How Canada Was Created to Block US-Russian Cooperation], MATTHEW EHRET, JUL 01, 2024. badlands.substack.com</ref>}}