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Thread #158525   Message #3752158
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
19-Nov-15 - 03:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Subject: RE: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
I do not have an ego big enough to warrant stating 'what if' scenarios as facts but I do know reality from fantasy.

No-one can possibly know what the world would look like today if the Germans had won WW1. By all means speculate on possible scenarios but remember it is just speculation, not fact. It never happened. Historians are good at what they do, but they are not Gods that know all possible outcomes.

What are you going to come up with next? It would have been better if the Roman invasion would have failed? After all, what did the Romans ever do for us? What if the crusades had failed? Would we all be Muslims? What if the mayors of Rome and Carthage had not met to end the third Punic wars after over 2000 years? What if Berwick upon Tweed had won the war with Russia? What if Keith lived in Hamburg instead of Hertford? Very interesting but it is all fantasy.

I am not disputing any of your 'facts'. I am just saying that an opinion over what would have happened if the Germans had won is not, in any way, shape or form, the fact that you would have us believe.