Why was Italy so useless during World War 2 #history #worldwar2

Bro, copied oversimplified word by word

Bro I'm italian😢

Exactly all Romans were gone and wanted to join the other psycho Hitler and looked what happened to both of them fools hiding in bunkers like cowards while kids were out there fighting in the war and that's who y'all were listening to I bet everyone was on that meth over there oh well they got what they wanted and now there's peace go U.S.A home of the brave

They had plenty of slingshots and rocks from all the buildings that were bombed but they never used them probably saving them for another war before they back off and join the one's that are winning

would the situation have been different if Paolo Maldini was there? 🤔

Also, if Mussolini abandoned his campaign in Ethiopia. It would’ve freed up resources to focus on writing in the Italian Armed Forces for their campaign in Greece. What really killed the campaign of the Italian Greek war with the mistake to go through the Greek northern mountains

italy never was an industrial power.

Italy was pretty useless in world war I also lol

Italy was a person who joined the try-outs that thought he was a pro in.

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1940: Getting smacked around in Europe
• Norway Campaign (April–June 1940) – The Allied/British attempt to contest Germany in Norway turned into a messy failure and evacuation, and it helped trigger a major political crisis in Britain (the famous Norway Debate in Parliament is part of that whole chain reaction). 
• Battle of France collapse → evacuation, not victory (May–June 1940) – The British Expeditionary Force got forced into retreat and evacuation, losing massive quantities of equipment in the process. 
• Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) framed as a miracle… but still a strategic defeat – Yes, ~338,000 were evacuated, but it was a rescue from a catastrophic situation and huge equipment losses. The “wars aren’t won by evacuations” reality is the sting. 

1941: Bad bets and brutal losses in the Med and Asia
• Crete (May–June 1941) – The island was lost after a German airborne invasion; the evacuation saved some troops, but many were killed/wounded/captured and the Royal Navy took punishing losses from air attack. 
• Hong Kong (December 1941) – The garrison was overwhelmed and surrendered in late December 1941; it’s often cited as strategically doomed from the start. 
• Force Z: sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse (10 Dec 1941) – A signature “welcome to the new age” naval disaster: capital ships caught without adequate air cover, both sunk, with heavy loss of life. 

1941–42: The Southeast Asia catastrophe
• Malaya + Singapore (Feb 1942) – One of the most infamous British defeats of the war: Singapore falls, described by Churchill as a historic disaster/capitulation. This one permanently damaged British prestige in Asia and is still the go-to example of imperial overconfidence meeting reality. 

1942: North Africa gut-punches and other self-owns
• Fall of Tobruk (June 1942) – Another humiliation: Tobruk taken, with the bulk of the garrison captured (tens of thousands). It caused a political shock back in Britain. 
• Arctic Convoy PQ 17 (June–July 1942) – One of the worst convoy fiascos: the order to scatter (due to fear of a surface raid) helped turn the convoy into a slaughter, with 23 merchant ships sunk. 
• Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus (Feb 1942) – German heavy ships sprint through the English Channel; British response was widely judged an operational embarrassment (including the doomed Swordfish attack) even if the long-term strategic picture is more nuanced. 
• Dieppe Raid / Operation Jubilee (19 Aug 1942) – A raid that turned into a bloodbath and is remembered mainly as “what not to do” (especially for amphibious assaults). Canadian troops bore the heaviest losses, but it was an Allied plan with major British involvement and support. 

1944: The “too far” moment
• Operation Market Garden / Arnhem (Sept 1944) – Big ambition, big failure at the key objective: the Arnhem bridge wasn’t held, and the British 1st Airborne Division was mauled (thousands dead/missing/captured). 

Hell nah

The two most useless armies in Europe were the Austrian and the Italian.

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Useless would be an understatement

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If Italy just played defense and focused on taking whatever equipment left over from France, they probably would have been alot more efficient and could have gotten some easy land.

E come sempre gli stupidi idioti angloamericani mistificano tutta la storia l'italia dei soldati che ebbero le palle di andare contro mitragliatrici e artiglieria sovietica a cavallo e vinsero in libia i tedeschi durante la ritirata si salvarono dagli inglesi perchè gli italiani li costrinsero a battaglie sanguinose per settimane

Imagine the horror in alternative timeline if japan is beside Germany instead of Italy ufff those duo would 2vs10 there

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