If you could show every WW2 soldier what their victory would cause, most would not fight. Literally.
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I don't know why we focus on WW2, time travel and eliminate Woodrow Wilson and save MORE Men and stop the commies before they begin!
And maybe save the Titanic, too many suspicious things with that one..
Why not go back and stop Marx, Foucault, and Rousseau? Or maybe crash the Jekyll island meeting.
"Emperor Hadrian, you must send a 13th legion to Judea to cut off their escape to Babylon!"
Alternately: "Emperor Vologases, a group of rebels from Rome seek to infiltrate your empire. If allowed to take root, they will spread their rot and seek to make your empire vulnerable to Roman incursion."
I can only confirm the Woodrow Wilson one myself, we'll need to get a bunch of autists together if we REALLY wanted to pin down when to unfuck the timeline! /s
Let's start with Phocas. Without his coup kicking off the last great war of antiquity, Rome and Persia don't pound each other into ruins right before a bunch of barbarians pour out of the Arabian desert. Among other things, this means no Ottoman Empire to employ Maimonides and Sabbatai Zevi, so no Moses Hess mentoring Marx and no critical theory.
Removing Mitochondrial Eve from the timeline significantly removes most human-made issues in the modern era.
Easy: send someone back to the garden to bitchslap Eve and choke the life out of the serpent.
Sargon had a similar comment recently. To summarize, he said that Marx's criticisms of liberalism are correct and that liberals have no answer to it, other than to handwave the criticisms away. Of course, Marx's solution of the worker's revolution is stupid and unworkable.
I've heard from someone (don't remember who) that fascism is "late stage socialism". People turn to it once they realize that socialism's economic system doesn't actually work. And I can think of a few examples of that. A lot of early socialists became fascists in Italy and Germany in the early 20th century. And China's modern system is the textbook definition of fascism, even if they still pretend to be communist.
All of that is to say that Marx (and others) correctly identify liberalism's problems. Just that socialism does not represent a workable solution.
The Titanic sinking has taught us TONS of lessons about maritime safety; so if you had a time machine, as cold as it may sound, it's probably better to let it sink rather than try to save it.
Russia was such a fuckup that the only reason the commies came in was that the reds were willing to sign a peace deal with the Germans.
Having your government collapse, yet continue to fight in a war isn't a very smart idea.