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devotech2 on scored.co
1 year ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)1 child
How would he have done it though?
A very large chunk of their military supply (and basically all of their air defense systems and missiles) came from the USSR. The USSR ceased to exist. This is why the US was able to invade Iraq in the first place. The soviet union stopped a potential US invasion by simply existing, and they took advantage of that opportunity as soon as the soviet union was gone.
There wasn't anyone to buy from (Russia was a destabilized and non functioning zombie of what it was during the ussr, it still kind of is) and china was allied with Iran.
Perhaps he should have done it before 1991 to begin with, but then again asking a decaying superpower for that much is a lot.
But hindsight is 20/20 anyways. Hitler should have prepared for a war with the west and should have designated significantly more to the kriegsmarine. But he prepared for operation barbarossa and assumed the west would be willing to negotiate. Likewise, iraq was never prepared for a war with the United States either and never designated anything towards carrying this out until it was too late. Furthermore, the US was already studying everything about Iraq since the 1970s.
The UN trade embargo would be the biggest reason. The reason for not being self reliant is pretty simply a lack of resources. Iron is hard to come by in the middle east which does not produce much besides farmland and oil. Where is iron abundant? The USSR. Iraq had a similar problem to Japan and this is the reason why most Middle Eastern armies are made up of equipment that's bought from somewhere else.
A very large chunk of their military supply (and basically all of their air defense systems and missiles) came from the USSR. The USSR ceased to exist. This is why the US was able to invade Iraq in the first place. The soviet union stopped a potential US invasion by simply existing, and they took advantage of that opportunity as soon as the soviet union was gone.
There wasn't anyone to buy from (Russia was a destabilized and non functioning zombie of what it was during the ussr, it still kind of is) and china was allied with Iran.
Perhaps he should have done it before 1991 to begin with, but then again asking a decaying superpower for that much is a lot.
But hindsight is 20/20 anyways. Hitler should have prepared for a war with the west and should have designated significantly more to the kriegsmarine. But he prepared for operation barbarossa and assumed the west would be willing to negotiate. Likewise, iraq was never prepared for a war with the United States either and never designated anything towards carrying this out until it was too late. Furthermore, the US was already studying everything about Iraq since the 1970s.