Comments by "James the Other One" (@jamestheotherone742) on "Could Libyan OIL have solved the Axis oil crisis of WW2?" video.

  1.  @wititorac  By not having Barbarossa draining resources away of course.
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  2. A prisons go, Norway's not the worst place to be. I doubt many of the troops complained to much.
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  3.  @wititorac  Ponder for a moment before you reply, what the Luftwaffe resources that were spent in Russia could have done to the RN in Benito's little lake.
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  4. @3:00 OTOH, simply denying Britain the Egyptian oil and the Suez would have seriously hurt their ability to fight on all fronts. And I don't think the Nazis would have hesitated for a second to grab all the petroleum products they could move regardless of the impact on the local population/economy.
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  5.  Wulf  Saving his little African empire would probably be "payment in kind". @Johny, The Germans really didn't have a practical atomic program. They had run off or killed all the smart people who could have done it.
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  6. Not necessarily if you assume the British would contest the move into the Arabian Peninsula. Mussolini might have been under illusions of grandeur that he could take Egypt, but Hitler was under no such delusion, mainly because he wanted to invade Russia instead.
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  7. You use the alien space bats' death ray.
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