Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Plan Z, or How Not to Prepare for The Battle of the Atlantic" video.

Remember that while the UK could out-build Germany they couldn't necessarily out-build multiple other nations at once. The German navy might have envisioned a war where they had actually had a chance to prepare and with allied navies fighting alongside them against the Royal Navy potentially making up for the difference in size of those navies, if not in a direct engagement then at least in terms of the resources available in the Royal Navy for the combined defense of its merchant fleet, its home coast and the various other parts of its Britains Empire at the time.
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