Ok, let's say hypothetically that they take the Georgian oil fields. So what? Like, first of all the Soviets will obviously burn everything down as they're retreating. Then, once you get them up and running again, are you sending the oil back to Germany? Is it going to the front? Where is it being refined?
>>18078430This also ignores the fact that Iran had already been occupied by the Allied Powers. The Soviets would just retreat into Iran and link up with British/Indian forces for a counterattack. Could the Germans really afford to open a new front in Iran?
>>18078430The greatest weakness of the Germany army wasn't the lack of fuel, but the absolutely abysmal logistics, partially contributed by the state of infrastructure in the Soviet Union and simply the enormous distance between Germany proper and the frontline. Georgian oil fields would not only not have given Germany much, but they'd have put and even greater strain on the logistics that they had already been experiencing. At least capturing Stalingrad would have allowed them to take a major railroad junction and stop the Soviets' reinforcements in the region
>>18078430>>18078447>>18078455>they couldnt make it work within five minutesthe whole point was they were going to defeat the USSR quickly, as in within 1941-1943 and then use its resources to defeat the British maybe before 1950.The oil was never meant to confer rapid victory, it was apart of a long term strategic resource plan.
>>18078447This is a stereotypical repetitive thread but here's the answers. Shell production is what limits wars. Oil makes them happen faster. It doesn't change who wins. Russia never actually produced oil. It's oil is fake and isn't used. Russia imported from Iran and America and it never had useful oil. Baku was already declining when the war happened and Russians fuel consumption was only about one oil tanker equivalent a month and came from a few pipelines to Iran plus American tankers. The oil production at the time was so small that whaling or any other minor sources would have decided the issue and even the Nazis technically had enough oil. America produced 3mbpd. If 10% is real and 10% of that was needed by Germany then even Germany domestic production at the end of the war covered most of their needs. Most oil is condensate or tar. Ghawar is all the real oil and in the past Bradford field, the Ohio and East Texas fields were the main sources as well as Iran. Until 1980s Iran was producing light oil and afterward tar. In WW2 Germany did have some real oil production and romania did also. It really did not matter what happened to Baku as it wasn't a real source. Obviously if oil was necessary and it was in Baku it would matter. In reality not only is shell supply the issue but also america was supplying Russia with oil and Germany would just lose faster if it had more ability to expend shells.
>>18078430It's a dumb hypothesis
>>18078430what georgian oil fields?Georgia produces metals, mainly manganese, not oil.
>>18079063You’ll never be the real GDP schizo, dumb imposter.
Wtf we have oil?
>>18079712Georgia produces peaches and peanuts retard.
>>18079712He meant oil fields in Azerbaijan i think. But yeah Georgia is a manganese and copper country
>>18078472Also a lot of people forget the value of just denying it to the Soviets, They were fucked up quote a bit in the period when they were able to block the Volga barge traffic at Stalingrad and even then they still had alternative routes,