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On Fri, 5/8/15, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Finding transport
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, May 8, 2015, 8:34 AM

 > On
 May 7, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 >
 > On Thu,
 May 7, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 > If Russia didn't have lots
 of good farmland and oil, it's unlikely Hitler would
 have bothered invading. Before the war, both grain and oil
 were exported from Russia to Germany.
 >

 > As you said upthread, trade is cheaper
 than invasion. So the decision to invade wasn't based on
 economics, but on psychology.

 And how well do that work out for him? He got
 sucked into russia with an over-extended supply line, and
 limited resources against an entrenched opponent with easy
 access to replenishment, and near parity in TL (up to parity
 by the turning point of the war).

 I’d say the German invasion of Russia rather
 proves my point.

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The point is that he did it for psychological reasons & it could've succeeded esp if the USSR hadn't been essentially mobilizing for war since that late '20's.
Which resulted in an unsustainable economy that greatly contributed to the eventual collapse of the state.
So, both states would up wrecked.
And why?
I believe it was primarily mutual hatred, thus psychological...

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