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

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." - Churchill The amount of extraordinary events that gave the allies victory cannot simply be attributed to "haha oil and industry", one out of millions of events is the capture of the U-559 enigma machine. What if she was never boarded and enigma cracked, allowing the U-boat campaign to continually sink large amounts of allied shipping ?
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@Treblaine Even with the enigma cracked Britain went down to 6 weeks of supplies in 1943. How do you think it would have fared if the pre-enigma crack campaign continued ? >asinine assumptions The asinine assumption is the utterly childish thought that "it was impossible for Germany to win". It should have been "impossible" for Germany to beat France, for France had a bigger army and better tanks, yet unique events on the ground gave Germany a victory.
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@Treblaine >england can fight without food and weapons ok
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@Treblaine >Bullshit No, it's literally from Churchill himself who said he was most worried about the U-boat campaign. >massive wishful thinking, Is U-559 enigma machine not being captured really that much wishful thinking? Is the Generals following Hitler's orders really wishful thinking? >unique events such as French generals not taking advantage of the bottleneck at Sedan bridgeheads for one. But by unique events i also mean the millions of individual actions that you can hardly name. e.g. "What if Hans didn't get into a certain position and destroy these 10 French tanks" Real life is more than meta "they had more tanks therefore they win" or as in your assumption "they had more ships", which despite the British theft of Norwegian and Polish shipping, still say that the Atlantic battle was far from certain. "Never say never" have you not heard of that quote? Sure it was impossible for Germany to conquer the moon but defeating USSR and Britain was less than "impossible". Heck, what if Churchill didn't attend the labour cabinet meeting? What if Halifax did resign in May 1940 ? These things could defiantly have affected the war.
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@Treblaine Pretty sure there's a lot of points where German victory could have achieved such as Dunkirk, Operation Crusader where Rommel ignore the report on British supply dump a few miles away. "Geoffrey Cox wrote that Sidi Rezegh was the "forgotten battle" of the Desert War. Crusader was "won by a hair’s breadth" by the Eighth Army but "had we lost it, we would have had to fight the battle of Alamein six months or a year earlier, without the decisive weapon of the Sherman tank" Or some quotes on the Atlantic Battle: "A Royal Navy report later concluded "The Germans never came so near to disrupting communications between the New World and the Old as in the first twenty days of March 1943" I mean if I had the effort to write a book on this I'm sure you could find countless quotes on how close WW2 actually was, pretty sure Glantz also says the Germans could have won in 1941, 1942 decided them not achieving total victory and 1943 decided how quickly they would lose it. Or I'm sure you'd dismiss these quotes as "allied propaganda" like some sort of Schrodinger's German war machine: A war machine that had no chance of winning but at the same time was invincible and unstoppable.
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