Why did Mussolini invade Ethiopia? Was it just a propaganda war

Lebensraum

Italian men can't live without Black women

Yeah as I understand it it was basically a propaganda move. There isn't really anything of strategic or material value in Ethiopia, I think it was basically revenge for Adwa.

>>3059596
this

Women shortage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faccetta_Nera

The hymn is said to have been inspired by a beautiful young Abyssinian girl, who was found by the Italian troops at the beginning of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia.

Faccetta Nera talks about how the black girl will be taken back to Rome and offered a new life, free from the bonds of slavery. There, the song's narrator explain that she will be introduced to new laws and rulers.

During the invasion the song was hugely popular in Italy and caused national fervor.[1] The implicitly erotic song was, however, somewhat of an embarrassment for the Fascist government, which had, starting in May 1936, introduced several laws prohibiting cohabitation and marriage between Italians and native people of the Italian colonial empire.[1] These efforts culminated in the Italian Racial Laws of 1938. The Fascist authorities considered banning the song, and removed all picture postcards depicting Abyssinian women from Roman shop windows.[1]

>>3059606
Literally muh dick.

>>3059606

love that song

>facetta nera sarai romana

top kek

>>3059592

this 100%

Italy got rekt in First Ethiopian war. So it was reclaiming "honor" (as far as you can clain it if you are an italian).

>>3059727
>rekt

They got zerg rushed.

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>>3059736
kek