Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Why didn't Hitler go through Turkey to get the Caucasus Oil?" video.

  1. You need to go back farther, before WWII, when Germany laid the rail line through what became Turkey, and into Iraq, to obtain oil. The US and Britain were converting their navies from coal to oil, and Germany wanted to do the same. There was a huge grab for that oil, led by the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., (later Anglo-Iranian, and BP), and they did not want Germany competing for it. The rail line through Turkey (Ottoman Empire) was laid to move the oil from the Middle-East to Germany, and Germany could use the line to bypass the Suez Canal. This is never discussed in history, leading to two world wars, but the history of oil and gas has much to do with it. These power plays were called the "Great Game," which were between Britain, Russia, and Germany.
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