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When will oil become big and utilized in Italian Libya? What does it change demographics to(details please). Didn’t a lot of Africans move there once oil was discovered in otl? Would fascist Italy focus on encouraging Italians from home and abroad or even other Europeans(I doubt fascist Italy allows non Europeans to come in legally)? Could oil bring in America business(like Saudi) and Italian Americans? Would they be US leaning but not a trustworthy ally? Wouldn’t oil turn Mussolini or leaders after him into a fascist Gaddafi? Didn’t Gaddafi use Libyan oil money to fund all types of revolutions and conflicts across the world? He was the only person I think funding Islamist and communist at the same time. Pretty sure he gave money to all anti-colonialist groups. Would Italian fascist leader fund right wing regimes abroad especially colonial powers with oil money? Doesn’t that greatly impact who getting money and resources? Didn’t many right wing regimes fail due to being more isolated from western capitalist economic systems? Don’t they survive if they have their own economic bloc(doesn’t have to be nearly as powerful. More like third bloc that west leaning but undemocratic and only sides with west against communist. They have to be taken into account but can’t stand toe to toe with either bloc).
Could the fascist use oil money to buy the support of Italian populations like Saudi and other oil rich regimes do with oil. Would oil money made from Libya be enough to greatly increase living standards in Italy if used to fund large public projects and luxuries? I wonder what that oil does for the Italian car industry? Will Mussolini and fascist spread its ideologies like Saudi and Gaddafi did? Does oil and being anti-communist(only important during Cold War not after if communism still falls) help the fascist regime survive much longer or until today? Could they be like Saudi where US looks the other way to stuff they do and Italy tries to avoid upsetting US too much?