Wars are won and lost before they’re even fought, something to that effect was said by Sun Tzu (last paragraph of the first chapter), he was talking about the merits of planning but I believe this also applies to fate. If you study the composition of a battle you’ll see that every thing that is going to effect the outcome of a battle is already there before it begins, the quality of soldiers and generals, the terrain and whether, the weapons, etc., now you could argue that even so the reactions of the humans in the event are the wildcards, but maybe not, if you think about it even this could be a set value in the equation of time, because a person acts according to what he knows and upon the experience of past events, so maybe even if that person does something out of the ordinary it might look like that because we cant see the big picture. Take Waterloo, the illness that struck napoleon was there before the attack began, the aggressiveness of Ney was there and could we really have expected anything else from him when he took command in the absence of Napoleon, the whit of Wellington and his ability to take advantage of the terrain was apparent before the battle, and the whether that delayed the initial attack was also there before the attack.
If we could see everything in a given moment then we might see things unfolding rather than starting to happen, this for me is logical but obviously my humanity tells me that’s impossible because that would suck the life out of life and would make things much harder to understand, determinism or zokonomernosty are dehumanizing terms to me but the logic behind them, at least to me, are interesting.