And if Hitler didn’t take power in Germany, it would have been the Communists taking power, it was going to be one or the other.
Yes, when you boil it down, history is really just the story of “ultra willful” individuals and their exploits. From Alexander the great to Caesar to Washington to Lenin to Hitler to Trump, it’s been their unbending will that defined history.
And the source of will is the burning, unshakeable conviction to a belief.
Nietzsche was right about the will to power.