What was their tragic flaw?

>>2228290
Being united solely by the values of the French Revolution.

>>2228290
Unification. Even to this day they're huge cultural and linguistically differences between northern, central and southern Italians. Centuries of city states and occultation by other European powers will do that.

>>2228290
Being Italian

>>2228290
Copying the French tri-color instead of using a based original design

WE WUZ ROMANS N SHIETT

>>2228384
How does the a people who have recorder their history for thousands of years not have a right to their own ancestry? The concepts of Italia is old as the Roman Republic.

>>2228313
>>2228302
>>2228290

As with Germany and Greece, Italy was at its best disunited. Some races are just better off divided, it's strange but seems to be true.

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THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH MY COUNTRY ITS JUST BAD LEADERSHIP DELET THIS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>2229348
>Declaring war to Austria-fucking-Hungary, while it was fighing on two fronts already
>Caporetto

>bad leadership

kys und gib back Venedig

>>2228290
It's unfortunately filled with italians

>>2228397
Or in a federation.

>>2228290
Trying to unify a group of city-states that had warred against each other since the fall of Rome.

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>First Battle of the Isonzo
>Second Battle of the Isonzo
>Third Battle of the Isonzo
>Fourth Battle of the Isonzo
>Fifth Battle of the Isonzo
>Sixth Battle of the Isonzo
>Seventh Battle of the Isonzo
>Eighth Battle of the Isonzo
>Ninth Battle of the Isonzo
>Tenth Battle of the Isonzo
>Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo
>Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo