realistically

But no state can, I mean, medieval or ancient, can realistically survive the simultaneous attack of three very different kinds of enemies, the Normans or, like, these knights...

I hate the word litmus test, but I'm realistic in the sense that I believe that we have to call what we're seeing realistically.

So if you're trying to condense 1,200 years into 120 pages or even, you know, even 200 pages, there's no way to do so realistically and give a sense of the whole terrain.