Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Bypassing Fortifications | UA Discusses Ceasefire For The First Time - Realistic? | Ukraine Update" video.

@OO7sMom I think they probably meant what they said to the Indians at the time, but there was no stopping the westward expansion. Also, renegades on both sides made conflict inevitable, even with good will on both sides. One massacre beget many another massacre. Neither "side" had any real control over the worst kinds of people on the frontier. What were the natives to do? Execute all their renegades? It didn't work like that. The Chief led by consent, and anyone not a party to the agreement didn't consider themselves bound by it. On the other side, you had masses of settlers, prospectors, profiteers, who didn't give a fig for the treaties signed. They just moved where they wanted and fought to take and defend it. The U.S. Gov't fully intended to leave the Black Hills to the natives. Then one guy discovered gold, there. The government didn't send armies of miners to the hills. They sent themselves, against the wishes of the government.
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