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Highly unlikely. Most of the oil revenues and profits end up at wealthy top and a tiny portion would be spent for food imports. If revenues dry up, there will be political revolutions and probably communist style rule.

The West doesn't have to accept them.

Yeah, because we need more "refugees". As if the ones we already got haven't caused enough damage.

Europe will get refugees regardless of its need for them, in the same way that we got climate change without needing it.

What we're debating is not the "if", it's what to do with them. The most endorsed answer thus far seems to be letting them drown in the Mediterranean Sea.