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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War

Intelligence Squared

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The Importance of Imagining the Future

I'm tempted to let Max respond to that and we could go on all night, but I won't give into that temptation at least yet. Meanwhile, I'm going to ask some dominance, have the last word from his side. We've heard an all of them amount today about counterfactuals. Let's have a counterfactual imagine as it wasn't. What did happen was the biggest calamity in world history. The collapse of central Europe, the rise of extremism, a terrible slaughter not just during the first world war - this is what happened. All you have to do is to think about what did happen and to ask yourselves was that worth it? Was that the outcome

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