Ah Gnome so speculation is the main tool used by all Governments in their decision making process when it comes to deciding on what course of action to take and in the formulation of Government policy after all they cannot possibly know for certain what is going to happen in the future.

No. We sometimes have to speculate over what will happen in the future. You were speculating on what would have happened if a past event had not occurred. The former is a necessity to formulate policy. The later is a luxury to justify or condemn something that has already happened. There is often no option but to try and predict future events but speculation over what might have been is a futile exercise.

Again, none of your bluster or (very poorly) attempted abuse will alter the fact that no one can possibly know what really would have happened had events been any different. Nothing to do with history, just logic.