Which war would you change the result?

[Andullero]

I wish napoleon had never won a single battle. As brilliant as he was, he set the stage for Europe as a whole diminishing in power over the next 2 centuries. And gave credit to many ideologies that are ridiculous in any other perspective than the post-enlightenment one.

The whole French Revolution was an immense tragedy of untold proportions down here in Latin America, specially as far as the Caribbean goes.

As the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya would put: "The dream of "reason" is one that produces monsters".

[Sebastianus Rex]

None, the present result is effect of all that happened previously and we can't predict how it could affect reality today. It always can be worse

Agree 100%.

Just a silly innocent example...if England wouldn't had defeat Argentina in The Falklands war, the match wouldn't be so epic and Maradona wouldn't have been wanting revenge and would have probably never scored the goals of the century.

[KirillMazur]

Counter-revolutionary coup (aka the assassination of Stalin in 1953).

Quiet but war. Stalin and his team (they were not Marxists, but were practical managers and tried to correct the mistakes of fucking theoreticians who did not hold anything heavier than a pen in their lives) did not manage to remove all liberal-Marxists (early globalists in fact) from power by 1953, they clearly need another 7-10 years for it + preparation of a successor.

The Stalinist USSR and the post-Stalinist USSR are two completely different states in their essence. The local Marxists simply do not understand the essence of the system that reigned in the USSR after the so-called "Khrushchev thaw". The complete elimination of all the rudiments of a truly socialist economic system (artels and industrial cooperation), the appropriation by the state apparatus of the functions of the main owner and exploiter, who disposed of all surplus product at its discretion, incl. the support of foreign communist parties, African cannibals and supposedly socialist regimes around the world to the detriment of their own population (primarily living on the territory of the RSFSR). Dictatorship of the proletariat? Forget about it. What, the workers themselves at the factories chose the leadership from their own collective and could at least in the minimum limits dispose of the results of their labor? No, damn it, everything was ruled by the main committees (Glavks) and ministries, lowering orders and plans for these plants and factories from above and appointing directors there.

So it turns out that once the state usurped the functions of management and disposal of all the results of the labor of the entire population of the USSR, then it automatically became the main exploiter. Original state capitalism as it is.

Now in Russia, in fact, is also state capitalism, since the state somehow controls 70 percent of the economy in all key areas, but at least does not interfere much with the remaining 30, giving the population freedom of entrepreneurial activity and pretty much pinning down the oligarchs after their orgy in the 90s.

[alnortedelsur]

Talking seriously. I wouldn't change the results of any war in the far past, because we don't know what the results would be today. Maybe, the chain of events would have resulted in me not being born.

But I would change the result of a very recent war, like the war of Malvinas. It would be cool if Argentinians had won that war.

[Cristiano viejo]

Talking seriously. I wouldn't change the results of any war in the far past, because we don't know what the results would be today. Maybe, the chain of events would have resulted in me not being born.

But I would change the result of a very recent war, like the war of Malvinas. It would be cool if Argentinians had won that war.

Malvinas war and such are useless wars, their result did not change anything. What should we care if Argentinians had won that war? what would have changed? nothing

[Arūnas]

Cold war, Soviet Union should have been the main geopolitical power in the world.

and rule over Spain, yes

[Cristiano viejo]

and rule over Spain, yes

That did not happen, we defeated your ancestors

[Sebastianus Rex]

That did not happen, we defeated your ancestors

What would of Spain if the commies (aka Republicans) had won the civil war?

One possibility is that Spain would have become a communist country for decades, a satellite of the USSR, and would have a similar path than the eastern European countries after the USSR collapse and would be nowadays more nationalist/right wing minded, less tolerant to globalist/ liberal ideas such as mass immigration, LGBT, no border control, etc.

[Tooting Carmen]

One or both of the Mexican-American and Spanish-American wars. Would the US be anything like as powerful today if it'd have lost one or both of those wars? In the case of the former, they wouldn't have Texas and California now for starters. And the obverse of this is that there would be a more delicate balance nowadays in terms of the respective powers of the English and Spanish languages than is actually the case.

[Westbrook]

The current outcome of WW2 effectively stunted European development and scientific advancement by nearly a century