Which war was the most successful?

I'm fully agree with Diamond, Khmelnytsky's era get many profits.

But, can we estimate fruitfulls of any war?! Like Diamond said the best war is unstarted war!

We can't build successful of ours on someone's death!

..War could be reckon like something great untill it had crawled to the porch of our home...

Hyenas and rats always come after to taste results of someone's braveness, spirit and painfully victory...

I hope you don't mind if I copy my answer from the other thread:




So it was actually a war against a war.
It certainly involved an enormous amount of saber-rattling on my part,
and I have to admit, I was ready to kill whoever I needed to kill to win that war.

But the way in which I communicated my intent without fear,
without any weapons in my hands, seemed to make the Afrikaners realize that  they would lose.
There may even still be a recording of the speech I gave them somewhere;
though it would likely be hidden away or even destroyed.

Afterwards it took decades before I could even talk about it.

Unfortunately, like any other war, the American Civil War was not that simple.  The South, for most of the people fighting in the war, fought because they were defending against an invading army, from the North.  Once upon a time, I thought the same thing that you and many others do: that the war was simply a matter of the south wanting slavery and the north wanting to free the slaves.  That notion could not be further from the truth.

To keep this post short, I'll say:
- The leaders of the north during the war couldn't care less about slavery, but did pander to garner the support of abolitionists/"radical republicans".  The emancipation proclamation only freed Southern slaves.
- Most Southerners didn't own slaves and couldn't care any less about the interests of plantation owners (some sources will contradict this, by assuming every member of a family owned slaves even if one relative, even distant, owned even one slave).
- From primary sources from the soldiers that fought in the war, Southerners saw the army of the North as being aggressive invaders, which isn't far from the truth: the Northern army did indeed burn entire towns and ruin the livelihoods of families.  The worst of these campaigns would be Sherman's March to the Sea.
- By studying the rhetoric of the secessionist speeches, one can figure out that states' rights was the cause of secession, with one example of an issue being slavery, which they felt slavery was a states' right to determine (i.e. the belief that states should be in charge of determining whether or not slavery could be practiced).
- Economic restriction, notably taxes, also contributed to the desire to secede and future economic sanctions would help fuel the South's desire to continue fighting.

As for the death of Abraham Lincoln: he was a tyrant, both during the war and after.  There were a lot of abuses by Northerners who occupied the South during Reconstruction.  During and after the war, there were also violations of constitutional rights, such as rights to freedom of speech and the rights of states to exist as states (during the earlier years of reconstruction, Southern states were occupied military territories).  So, he garnered very negative feedback and unfortunately this likely lead to his assassination (he upset the wrong people).  Not that killing him was justified.

Also, note that I don't support slavery.  It is the right of all American men and women to receive full constitutional rights, which were not afforded to slaves (otherwise they would not be slaves).  Unfortunately, I'll say again, the leaders of the North did not care about slaves and had to be forced to take action by the Abolition Movement (which a large part of the Abolition Movement took place in the South, notably the Underground Railroad).

That's a very short summary that scrapes the tip of the iceberg.  I started learning about all this two years ago, going from believing the CSA was an evil entity and that the USA was a heroic entity, to knowing that the CSA was not the bad team that we're indoctrinated into believing and that the USA wasn't the hero that we're indoctrinated into believing them to be.

Edit:
Also, slavery was a dying practice, even in the South.

So, the American Civil War was not a war that I would consider "successful" and I would say it was more of a set back for the nation.