Let's have a thread of "What could have been".
List mistakes and poor decisions that forever changed history.
I'll start:
>Scandinavia didn't remain in the Union / create one single country, but insted went to war, using propaganda that to this day gives people in these countries a sense of difference that isn't there, and even hate for one another
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>Napoleon marches his Grand Army into Russia instead of invading Britain.
>the versailles contract
And then
>Britain doesn't elect Oswald Mosley
>Britain doesn't choose to have peace with Germany
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>Marcus Aurelius names Commodus his successor
A rare case where historical characters are actually less clever than their Ridley Scott movie counterparts.
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>Mongolian fleet is destroyed by a tsunami before they can fuck Japan's shit up
>tons of inner battles in Europe between countries
>the same countries could have literally conquered the entire world together, if they cooperated
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as if that would not have ended just as badly