The problem with counterfactualism
As interesting as counterfactualism may be, we must be careful with its use. Paul Dukes warns against placing undue reliance on what might happen at the expense of what did.
In 1901, in A Political History of Contemporary Europe Since 1814, the French historian Charles Seignobos asserted:
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