even so that does not imply that mexico could not possibly use any generous financial support to buy the arms ammunition or other war supplies for the very reason that the u s was the only sizable arms manufacturer in the americas to make matters worse germany could not be counted on to supply mexico with war supplies directly as the british royal navy controlled the atlantic shipping lanes as the editor has pointed out mexico could buy weapons produced in argentina or use the argentinian companies as intermediaries moreover as the same editor also pointed out the of the fuel used by the british royal navy in was produced in mexico hence without fuel the british royal navy could not control the atlantic shipping lanes at all actually it is not a coincidence that the uk took persia in the partition of the ottoman empire of considering the fact that the anglo persian oil company was founded there in and the uk had learnt the lesson it is really dangerous to depend exclusively on the oil produced in only one foreign country well they learnt the lesson until the oil crisis of finally let us also recall that the us made plans in for invading mexico and taking control of tampico oil fields but the us also calculated that mexicans would set in fire the oil fields before they could arrive there the classical scorched earth technique applied by the russians against napoleon and hitler usually people does not take into consideration that mexico had a super weapon in the oil fields because mass production of oil in saudi arabia began until