Text: Nonetheless, Lind says, the strategy of maximal realism means it would have been better to have started the defense, and continued it until the casualties became too high for domestic politics to bear, than to have taken the minimal realism course of not starting the fight.
Entailment: Maximal realism would have made more sense than minimal realism in regards to the fight.
Contradiction: Minimal realism is much better than maximal realism according to Lind.