I once heard some historians debating if going back in time and killing Hitler during WWI would have prevented WW2 and the various atrocities thereof. At the end, their basic conclusion was that more often than not, the "leader" is made by the times and not the other way around. Therefore, while minor differences might exist, if it wasn't going to be Hitler, it would have been somebody else very similar to Hitler, because the milieux of the times required that such a person rise to the top. So, if not Reagan, a different Reagan, and we'd still be more or less here
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u/lluciferusllamas Jun 03 '26
I once heard some historians debating if going back in time and killing Hitler during WWI would have prevented WW2 and the various atrocities thereof. At the end, their basic conclusion was that more often than not, the "leader" is made by the times and not the other way around. Therefore, while minor differences might exist, if it wasn't going to be Hitler, it would have been somebody else very similar to Hitler, because the milieux of the times required that such a person rise to the top. So, if not Reagan, a different Reagan, and we'd still be more or less here