Sometimes the logistics of people's lives just work out so that's the kind of love that fits, and thinking of might-have-beens doesn't really help anybody.
But from this three-chord thicket of no-hopers, might-have-beens and once-weres emerged a single band that still strides like a colossus across the stadium circuit of this planet.
Yet to point out might-have-beens that could have negated actual events is not to overturn the view that something would have eventually lit the fuse of war.