Comments by "Ggoddkkiller" (@ggoddkkiller1342) on "Why Hitler invaded the Soviet Union" video.

  1. They also prepared plans to invade Turkey during same time period but fortunately they decided an invasion from only west would be too costly. And prepared another plan to push into Syria and force Turkey to join Axis or invade it from west and south simultaneously. Honestly if they decided to invade Turkey from only west i don't think we could stop German war machine for long, at best two years by using natural barriers. It is true Turkey is a very mountainous country with full of mountain ranges and even straits etc which are quite defendable, but the problem was men were needed to defend anything.. Turkey's population was only 17 million in 1940 and around 9 million of them were under 16. "Neutral" western historians would never ever mention Muslim population of Anatolia dropped from 13 million in 1914 to 10.5 million in 1923 because of war casualties, bad conditions and atrocities by so called "peaceful" nations. And it didn't recover even a bit after 20 years, check out 1940 population pyramid of Turkey you will know how bad it was as it doesn't even look like a pyramid with huge gaps especially for male population. So it is often overlooked realistically Turkey could muster around a million soldiers at best without destroying its economy. If they threw economy out, lowered age restrictions etc it could reach 3 million but most of the army was going to be old men and children. There is this nonsense in western narrative that Turkey stayed neutral as a choice. While in reality it was literally a country of children and had no choice but remain neutral. If Rommel could capture Egypt and reach Syria it was like 95% Turkey would just join Axis to avoid the war..
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