Why did Italy preform so poorly in ww2? They were defeated relatively

Eternal G*rman backstabbed them by entering the war too early when they said they weren't prepared for it yet.

>>2694555
Modern army needs a productive heavy industry.
A productive heavy industry requires high amounts of certain resources.
Italy is and has always been a very resource poor country due several geological reasons.
For example, at the beginning of the 20th century, the united kingdom was producing something like 200 million tons of coal per year. Italy, something like 400 thousands. 400k vs 200 M
Add to that incompetent generals and you have poorly lead, poorly equipped soldiers. Can't do shit with them.

>>2694555
They couldn't produce shit.
>>2694560
Italy didn't declare war when Germany did.
Retard Mussolini was told to join in when Italy was ready but being a retarded terroni, he joined way too soon when Italy couldn't even equip half of their army with proper guns.

>>2694555
Because the Italian state was a clusterfuck on almost every level. Mussolini didn't enjoy the kind of absolute power and confidence that the rest of the totalitarian dictator crowd had (he was eventually dismissed by the nominally powerless king), and as a result sabotaged most of his own government in order to prevent any of his ministers or other governmental figures from ousting him. This is a good move for your own personal stability/power, but a real shit one for trying to get the country do anything useful.

>>2694555
Same reason they did bad in WWI: lack of industry for war and poor leadership.

Regular Italian soldiers could be heroic and professional, but it wasn't the kind of army that was being built and it definitely wasn't supplied in a way to make use of courage.

>>2694585
Mussolini was not a terrone you idiot.