WI: British Baku? (Britain dominates the oil market after 1920)

What level of effect would "British Baku" have on the UK economy?

  • Massive

    Votes: 29 47.5%
  • Middling

    Votes: 22 36.1%
  • Miniscule

    Votes: 10 16.4%

  • Total voters
    61
I dont feel the british pre 1930s understood just how strategically important oil would be, had they with potentially baku, persia, iraq, kuwait, uae, qatar, oman and potentially SA all falling within the british sphere, as well as dominating the shipping routes on the area with Suez, aden, cyprus etc todays britain and the world could be a very different place

Middle East was not an importamt source of oil in the 30s and the Brits spent a lot of effort securing oil from Persia.
 
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