Why did Italy entered Triple Alliance when it had claims on Austrian

So that it could allows for maximum damage when it reneged on its partnership.

Is it easier to work against your enemy from the beginning? Or to rather enter into his confidences, and then strike when you are vital to his security and know his weaknesses?

>>3086039
Italy was more worried about France in the 1880s. Romania made a similar alliance with AH and Germany to counter Russia.

>>3086039

France was both their colonial rival (Italy was cucked in Tunis, Morocco) and political rival after the way the italian unification happened in the late stages (France prevented italian capture of Rome until they themselves were btfo by Germany in 1870 and Italy took the chance to enter Rome).

Basically France was sabotaging Italian efforts to make Italy great again in the Mediterranean.

4D chess

To lull them into a false sense of security and then spend 4 years at Isonzo battles

>>3086182
>319th battle of the Isonzo (on going)

Pretty much france was shitting on Italy in every possible way, and since Italy had no allies, they decided that it was better an hated ally than no ally. Furthermore, if i'm not wrong, originally Italy was to be in a bilateral treaty with Germany, which included later austria-hungary, much to the dismay of many italians. Lastly, there was a clause in the treaty, by which for every austro-hungarian acquisition in the balkans, a part of the contested lands had to be transferred to Italy. Needless to say, they never respected that provision

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>>3086053
This. There were also irredentist attitudes towards France at the time as well. Especially after their annexation of Tunisia.

>>3086605

Originally there were feels and common political and economical interests between Germany and Italy as afterall they both underwent similar unification processes against similar obstacles, noticeably France. But then, indeed, Bismarck started his '''smart''' 5D chess and one of the consequences was the progressive alienation of Italy from the Triple Alliance, mostly because of Austria.