 Complete the following phrase:  Operation Pike was a plan developed by the United Kingdom and France to bomb the Azerbaijani SSR city of Baku in order to eliminate a major source of German oil. One of the agreements in the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, or more commonly known as the MolotovRibbentrop Pact, was the delivery of 900,000 tons of Soviet oil to the Germans with incremental increases as time went on. The Soviet supply of oil to the Germans led the Allies to portray the Soviet Union as an ally of Germany in propaganda. The mechanized German army required huge amounts of fossil fuels to sustain it and would be in a deficit without Soviet, specifically Azerbaijani, oil. The Allies hoped to starve the German army for resources, halting the axis Blitzkrieg into France. Baku provided the Soviet Union with 80 of its oil: the bombing would have severely weakened the Red Army, possibly even forcing it to succumb to the Germans during the 