Italy been a joke since Musso.
Mussolini being an inept leader and the Greeks holding strong against Italy fukked up Hitlers invasion of Russia as Hitler had to send troops to help Italy
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It was to “pay back Hitler in his own coin,” as Mussolini openly admitted, that he decided to
attack Greece through Albania in 1940 without informing the Germans. The result was an extensive and ignominious defeat
and the Germans were forced unwillingly to extricate him from its consequences. The 1941 campaign to support the German invasion of the Soviet Union also failed disastrously and condemned thousands of ill-equipped Italian troops to a nightmarish winter retreat.
Hitler had to come to his ally’s help once again in North Africa. After the Italian surrender in North Africa in 1943,