Comments by "Quizmaster China" (@QuizmasterLaw) on "Could Libyan OIL have solved the Axis oil crisis of WW2?" video.

Great topic, quick answer, no: Arab oil in those days still wasn't developed, even if you have the raw material you still have to process it. No processing machinery available even if Libyan reserves were known back then, which they were not. But the same question applies for Iraqi oil or elswhere in the UK realm where oil had been discovered.
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@TheImperatorKnight In fact yes. Some issues are open and shut, yet not known generally. Meanwhile, I imagine just the render alone is MUCH easier. And here is a clue: The Imperator Knight.
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@philvanderlaan5942 well, the SMA is also an NCO (USRA)... so is an RSM (UK) the nazis had a war plan, like most war plans it didn't survive first contact with the enemy. TIK underestimates the nazis, a bit, but most over-estimate them, a lot. The nazi war plan, simplified, was: pick off small weak but useful countries and level on up. Going into the USSR was as much for grain as for oil. There was no grain in Africa and the oil wasn't really accessible due to refining and transit. So the USSR was their preferred target, though going all the way to Suez and if possible beyond makes more sense EXCEPT for the issue of grain. But Stalin was happy to sell the nazis grain.
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i think I already said going all the way to Suez makes it likelier to get Turkey to join the axis. And Then invade the USSR. But Stalin probably would have preemptively attacked first.
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@philvanderlaan5942 The inner logic is: seize those areas with ethnic Germans first: the Ruhr, then the Sudetenland. Then, seize areas with weapons and factories, as well as the necessary bases for the war. Poland is first to go because there are ethnic Germans in the Polish corridor. Hitler expected another capitulation. Once the war started the next targets were Norway and Denmark, so Germany has base areas for its submarines, then the low countries for freedom of maneuver in France and then too Belgium and France itself. Now Germany has even better bases for its submarines and lots of captured French tanks cannons and ammunition, not to mention factories. Even though Hitler wanted to fight the USSR, only, the British STILL refuse to a negotiated peace. Hitler got pulled into the side show in North Africa and Greece which isn't what he wanted. But the biggest and most important was the USSR with grain and oil. It's only possible to fight in Poland with Czech tanks. It's only possible to fight in the USSR with French tanks too. Does it make more sense now? Hitler didn't spare the British at Dunkirk out of mercy -- he wanted to capture all their gear intact.
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@philvanderlaan5942 " I dont believe that The german war plans were very well thought out" they were. they even had a "what happens if we lose, which we are likely to" scenario, which we are currently living in. I don't think you stupid, "just" being an NCO means you have more military experience than most people who post videos on youtube. Me, I'm just a Technician.
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No one even knew there was oil in Libya back then.
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they call it CRUDE oil for a reason. You can use crude oil for lubricant and heating but not much beyond that without some serious refinement. Nearest axis refineries are in Romania... transiting the med and then the black sea -- assuming Turkey even would cooperate, well, briefly, no. Either go all the way to Suez and Iraq i.e. ditch Barbarossa or your stuck trying for Maikop Grozny and Baku. Liked and commented. GG
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tldr version: Beat up the smallest guy first, take his knife. Beat up the second smallest guy next, take his pistol. Then beat up the next from last, take his rifle. You're working up to the final nuclear level.
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@LordPosho 00:44 Sei molto gentile, ma no. I never admit to speaking dago. The wops might find out!
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"the bullet hit the metal tube rather than him" this sounds like bullshit, maybe someone who could've been killed or was killed is the real "tube" plus TUBE ALLOYS was a UK nuclear code word.
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@philvanderlaan5942 the only logical libyan oil scenario is really the Iraq oil scenario. Panzer Armee Afrika becomes a genuine panzer army with about 10 tank divisions and 10 motorized or even better panzer grenadiers. If Hitler went all in on Africa then he Cannot invade USSR but likely would reach Sueze and even Iraq. He now has all the oil he needs. Somewhere in there the USSR likely launches an attack on Hitler. But the USSR is terribly bad at unprovoked war. So the axis get into a war of attrition in Poland. Hitler does now have an extra year of war and might get nukes and jets and submarines and so can possibly keep the USA and UK at bay. This is perhaps a better way to commit genocide against the USSR. So, maybe?
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better means "more effective." fyi
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@philvanderlaan5942 I did say that sending half of the panzer divisions and motorized divisions to Africa means no Barbarossa. Keep in mind too When does the USSR intervene -- if at all? Stalin would have been perfectly happy to stand aside and let the capitalist imperialists grind each other to dust with Stalins army free to go in at the best time to clean it all up winner take all style. If USSR stays neutral all through 1944 sorry then the anglo americans lose.
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@philvanderlaan5942 You're not very good at standing back and letting your enemies destroy each other. Or understanding the nazis war plans. Each conquest was intended to enable the next. Stalin would have done in 1942 what he did in 1941. Nothing! and in 1943, too! Why? Because after the US and UK and Germany have destroyed each other it is soooo much easier to invade them all.
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but you learned to STIK TO OIL
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@philvanderlaan5942 STONKS TO TONKS lol
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@rickden8362 From what I read the oil produced in the middle east was of lower quality and would not be so suitable. You imagine Rommel is able to get all kinds of resupply; he can't, because he didn't. He didn't because of the royal air force and the royal navy. Shipping more tanks, if they even reach Africa (many went to the bottom of the sea, thanks ULTRA!) still need fuel and oil. You're also imagining the British would not have stripped Asia of soldiers further, but they would simply have removed even more troops from Asia. So Rommels grand and glorious unsupplied wehraboo advance o to far, very far distant oil fields (where are the refineries? oh, even if there were refineries on site the British would have destroyed them)... well, like most fantasies about the nazis winning yours too ignores facts. Where are all those Germans going to get water, fuel, ammunition hm? How are they going to evacuate their wounded? And when is Stalin going to see that and decide to attack the much reduced number of nazis in Poland? At best, your unrealistic views result in a quicker loss of East Asia. The axis had plenty of oil. In Indonesia and Vietnam. Yet even there it was unable to be used, thanks to the U.S. Navy.
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