The victims of terrorist strikes in London and New York are just as innocent as all those whose lives have been claimed in the Middle East and beyond by the often cold calculus of geopolitics. The CIA have long had a term to describe the unintended consequences of it's covert operations - it's called 'blowback' and it's principle applies just as readily to innocent peoples impacted negatively by American foreign policy decisions.

Confining ourselves to the Middle East and only to recent...

In recent historical speculation, most historians have speculated that , if it hadn't been for Operation Barbarossa (thats the invasion of Soviet Union ) Hitler would have been the Fuhrer of the European Continent, his empire would've stretched from the reaches of Prussia to the Atlantic Ocean. In this post, I shall examine and (try to) accurately Speculate (if such a thing exists) what would've happened if Soviet Russia and the Third Reich hadn't collided.
Note- This post will not delve...