that sort of begs the question just what the fuck are you doing arguing the details of it.

Then you obviously have not understood a single thing. I am not arguing about any details of history. If you cannot grasp then then what the fuck are YOU doing arguing about it? I have tried to explain my point a number of times so one more time will probably not help but here goes. No one can state, as fact, what would have happened if a single event in history had been different. Any single aspect in history. You can predict all you like. You can apply the law of probabilities to attempt to prove it. But you can never be certain of what the outcome would have been. You will never know what else that single change would have done. And what is more, you will never be able to because it is in the past, it never happened and it never will. It may be clever and logical speculation but it is still fantasy.

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