Al Murray
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Just occasionally.
Occasionally.
And then I think it carries more weight.
So British assumptions that take Britain into this campaign are to do, you know, the British viewing things through a strategic and economic prism.
It's about material strength.
The pressure points are seen as oil and iron ore.
Yeah.
And Britain can't do anything about the German oil supply.
But iron ore is something that you can intervene in quite directly.
Yeah.
Because in Scandinavia, there's a great deal of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it comes from Galevar and Kiruna, the mines in northern Sweden, mainly, which is up in the Arctic Circle.
Yes, it is.
In summer, it's shipped between Sweden and Finland from Lulea.
But in winter, this freezes over.
Yeah.
So it comes to Germany along a railway line that's finished in 1902 to Narvik.
Narvik is an incredibly important railhead.
Norway, of course, is neutral.