Abstract: Modern America was founded in violence; first slavery and genocide of natives, then revolution against mother England, then war as the modus vivendi in the quest for world domination. This essay, presented at the 3rd International Conference on the Decline of the United States, focuses on the US civil war and the genocide in Cambodia as a result of the war in Vietnam, and their relevance to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
1.1 US civil war 1860-1864
1.2 Compared to Ukraine
1.3 Russia's carpetbaggers and two civil wars





