Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "The MAIN Reason Why Germany Lost WW2 - OIL" video.

  1.  @Darth_Insidious  By "their own oil fields" you mean ones they stole from the Dutch and British, of course. Also, they did have another choice - end their genocidal war in China.
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  2. Doctrine. Precision bombing was very difficult in daytime, impossible at night, and RAF Bomber Command was designed exclusively for nighttime bombing because they didn't think unescorted bombers could survive over Germany in daylight, and didn't anticipate a fighter being developed with the range to escort such raids. (They were right about unescorted bombers, but when escorts became available, the USAAF was able to take advantage of them because it was designed for daylight bombing.)
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  3.  @AnantRaghav  You'd like Nazi rule a LOT less.
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  4. HOW DARE YOU?!?!?!?!?!?
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  5. If he had destroyed the BEF, why would that change things all that much? The RAF and Royal Navy would still have been able to prevent any invasion. It certainly would have affected the UK's ability to carry on the land war in other theaters, and made Normandy an almost all American effort, but none of that would have changed the course of the war in Russia, which is where Hitler lost his bid for dominance of Europe.
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  6. Climate change is not a hoax. Trust the science. Our entire modern world depends on it.
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  7.  @Vlog-hu8gb  Hitler never had control of the whole Mediterranean, just parts of it within land-based air range of his bases in Italy, Sicily, Crete, and Libya. As I mentioned, whenever Rommel got too far east of Tripoli his supply chain began to break down because that was as far east as the Italians could protect major convoys. The Royal Navy had complete control of the seas off Egypt and the Levant throughout the war.
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  8. Russians, English, and Germans are all the same race. And race is BS anyway.
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  9. How, without a navy?
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  10.  @Brslld  How did they get that way, when they absolutely weren't like that in WW1?
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  11. The Japanese had all the oil they needed and then some. What they lacked was any means to get most of that oil back to Japan where the refineries were and to protect the ships so employed. You'd think they might have planned for that, but the generals who were running the government just kind of assumed the navy would take care of it somehow. The Germans would have had the same problem if they'd managed to secure the Caucasian oil fields.
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  12. They were receiving oil, but not as much as they needed.
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  13. I don't think any of that oil had been discovered at that time.
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  14. Not with the French army in his rear. He couldn't possibly beat the Soviets in the very short time frame he dealt with Poland.
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  15. Blockade runners across the entire Atlantic wouldn't be very practical. With a modern navy you don't need to blockade every port, just have a picket line of destroyers and corvettes well out to sea.
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  16. Depends on the type of engine. Naval engines of the day worked the same as coal ones, burning oil to heat water into steam to turn the turbines. And internal combustion engines of the day used pistons, not turbines. Gas turbine engines like we have today had yet to be invented.
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  17.  @grantaum9677  "I wonder what, for example, the USA would do today if it had oil sanctions for holding foreign territory? Just leave its aircraft and warships to mothball, let it's economy go back to the pre-war state, I think that unlikely" You can think whatever ignorant thing you want, but the fact is that the US has faced oil embargoes in the past, most notably in 1973 over its support for Israel, and not attacked the OPEC states to steal their oil by force.
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  18. And how was he supposed to do that without a meaningful navy? He couldn't even supply a relatively small army in Egypt properly.
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  19. There's one corollary to this that people rarely acknowledge, and that is that if the UK had made peace in 1940 Hitler would have been able to buy all the oil he wanted or needed on the world market - the US might have embargoed him, but countries like Venezuela would have been only too happy to do business - and probably would have won the war. In this sense the biggest strategic blunder Hitler made was not invading the USSR - that was the whole reason for the war - or even invading when he did - as you note, he couldn't put it off any longer - but going to war with the UK without having any plan whatsoever as to how he would compel the UK to make peace once he overran France. He just assumed they'd come to terms once he was sitting in Paris, the same way, and just as disastrously, as Napoleon assumed Russia would come to terms once he was sitting in Moscow. In war, it is never enough to know how you're going to beat the enemy militarily, you also have to know how you are going to turn military victories into a political one. The US made the same strategic blunder in Vietnam. Commieboos who like to talk about how the USSR beat Hitler singlehandedly always seem to leave out this absolutely critical factor: the UK blockade and how it crippled Germany's economy and military by depriving them of oil from outside Europe.
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  20. The US would never have done it with Roosevelt as president.
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  21. They beat Russia in 1917.
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  22. The US was never going to sell oil to Nazi Germany as long as Roosevelt was president, and even if it did, there was no way to deliver it through the Royal Navy blockade unless the US declared war on Britain, which was absolutely never going to happen. For that matter, Hitler could have bought the oil he needed from Venezuela, which would have been happy to do business with him, but again, he had no way to get it through the UK blockade.
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  23. Not only did no one have any idea that oil was there, the technology for offshore drilling wasn't there either.
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  24. Not very. Speer was a very, very gifted liar.
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  25. How exactly was he supposed to attack Iran and Iraq or invade Britain in the face of complete British naval supremacy? Just look at how resource-starved Rommel's army was in Egypt, hundreds of miles closer to its supply sources than Iran and Iraq were. And even if by some miracle he could have gotten any significant number of troops to Iran, the Soviets would never have just let him roll though it without getting involved.
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  26. Germany had enough oil to stave off final defeat for four years, that's not the same as having enough to win.
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  27. Not when they lost, which was arguably 1941.
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  28. Impossible from a logistical standpoint.
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  29. If they'd captured it, they still couldn't have transported the oil back to Germany. It was always a pipe dream.
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