[potato3732842]

The fact that the particular example is technically untrue doesn't change the overall point though.

A slight change in weather and England could have been invaded by the Spanish Armada.

[rtkwe]

I'm not saying it does, just thought it was an interesting aside to talk about, Barbarossa was pretty flawed from the very beginning.

Also I don't think it's a great pro-Great Man nor anti-Structuralist argument. Structuralist don't believe it's deterministic generally and if history is so down to random chance then how important are the "Great Men"? It's basically a wash for either side imo.