HistoryPorn @lemmy.world PugJesus @lemmy.world 2mo ago New York shipyard building an ironclad for the Italian Navy, USA, sometime between 1861-1864
Building for another country during the civil war?
"The business of the American people is business." - President Calvin Coolidge
Such a flex, to export warships while blockading and burning the south to the ground. Get wrecked.
There was a strict limit of 1 ironclad per nation back then.