If there was no blockade, the Confederacy would have gotten foreign aid from France or others. That would increase their imports and given them more supplies. They would have also been able to export cotton, their major crop, for money. The blockade stopped them from doing that and basically choked them into defeat, that is why it was called the Anaconda Plan.
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Thucydides viewed war and politics as being inherently intertwined, since he believed that war was simply the means that humans resorted to when political discussions failed.