Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "How The Africa Campaign Exposed Churchill's Vulnerability | Hitler's Soft Underbelly | Timeline" video.

  1. My countrymen fought against the Turks in 1912, against Bulgarians in Greece in 1916-18 and against Italians at home in 1941-43 and won each time.
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  2. The documentary is mostly right. 1) The Germans had oil in Romania (Ploesti). Although not as much as they wanted. 2) There was no oil drilling or production in North Africa at the time. Italy, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine shut the Mediterranean for Allied merchant convoys (save a few, expensive ones to Malta). Merchant ships got re-routed around Africa. 3) North Africa started with Mussolini's stupidity and later turned into UK doing something to show moral support for the USSR's decisive struggle with the Germans, while keeping the cost relatively low... Until USSR and Germany killed each other in sufficient numbers to make taking over Western Europe cheap for the US (UK was already beginning to be a US satellite during the war). Attacking Italy was the continuation of the same game, with an added benefit of being able to hit Ploesti with air raids, starting late 1943. 4) Most of Luftwaffe was bled on the Eastern front. Although not by a large margin. For me, Turkey managing to stay neutral is very interesting. Had the Germans managed to get Turkey on their side they could have damaged Soviet oil facilities in the Caucasus with air raids from Turkey which could have had some serious consequences for the USSR's war effort.
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  3.  @lyndoncmp5751  You misread 3) and are wrong about 4)
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  4.  @lyndoncmp5751  Read 3) again 4) Fighters are just a lesser fraction of the total Luftwaffe. Bombers? Strike aircraft? Transports? Liaison arcraft/spotters? Reconnaissance aircraft? Also good aircrew getting killed, maimed or captured were a bigger problem for Germany than losing aircraft... And even the numbers you have are unreliable. And lastly - whatever they had on the eastern front was engaged 24/7 while much of what they had in the west was much less active. Planes in Norway? How often were they engaged?
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  5.  @lyndoncmp5751  As I said fighters figure true or false is just cherry picking and shows a distorted picture. You need figures for all losses.
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