If it were not Hitler, it would have been someone just as bad.
Those ideas were nothing new.
Perhaps we would have ended up fighting Stalin outright. That would have been as bad if not worse.
“Perhaps we would have ended up fighting Stalin outright. That would have been as bad if not worse.”
Yes, that scenario is raised in the piece.
It’s somewhat interesting to think about - the “butterfly” effect, the “hitler” effect. They don’t seem to be entirely equivalent, do they?
That is a fact not in evidence. For all we know, if Hitler had not risen to power and become a Tyrant, perhaps no one would have done so.