What made Mussolini decide that joining Germany was a good idea?

No one else liked him

Hitler was a fanboy
and they were the only ones who would accommodate his ambitions

>>3141196
Because he didn't think the war would be a total one, and that Hitler had already essentially won. He would show up, win a few easy concessions from France, and the thing would be over in a few weeks.

>>3141271
Literally fatal mistake. The retard could probably have still been ruling Italy into the 50s if he had just played it cool or sided with the Allies.

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>>3141281
This.

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Alternative history:
>Italy joins the Allies
>The Allies lose the war

>>3141196
Similar ideology and Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia left Italy shamed and isolated by Britain and France so it looked towards Germany and even places like Spain and Japan for allies. Mussolini's goals also required the defeat of France and Britain to be made and make Italy much more powerful, he considered the lack of possessions and French domination in the Mediterranean a prison, "The bars of this prison are Corsica, Tunisia, Malta, and Cyprus. The guards of this prison are Gibraltar and Suez. Corsica is a pistol pointed at the heart of Italy; Tunisia at Sicily. Malta and Cyprus constitute a threat to all our positions in the eastern and western Mediterrean. Greece, Turkey, and Egypt have been ready to form a chain with Great Britain and to complete the politico-military encirclement of Italy. Thus Greece, Turkey, and Egypt must be considered vital enemies of Italy's expansion ... The aim of Italian policy, which cannot have, and does not have continental objectives of a European territorial nature except Albania, is first of all to break the bars of this prison ... Once the bars are broken, Italian policy can only have one motto – to march to the oceans."

>>3141281
Depending if fascism didn't collaspe by then.

>>3141524
It's unsurprising, but in retrospect pretty funny, that both Mussolini and Hitler completely failed to realize that technological economic changes would within a few years make the whole idea of conquering giant swaths of land so that you could plant soldier-farmer colonies on them idiotic and unprofitable, and technological military changes would within a few years make strong land and sea defenses secondary to having a nuclear deterrent.

>>3141196
Its the other way around

Hitler told him that he wouldn't invade Poland until 1942, then invaded 3 months after Mussolini signed the Pact of Steel

>>3141504
Believe me or not the sword in the picture is "The Sword of Islam"

>>3141199
sad but true

>>3141850
>the Pact of Steel
holy shit that name is so larpy. did millions of people die in the middle of the last century because of a bunch of autistic larpers? fuck thats messed up

>>3141791
It didn't in Spain.

>>3142116
The Pact of Steel lasted 4 years
Kek

>>3142146
im still shocked that this is an actual name of a pact. it sounds like what edgy middle schoolers who watch WWF would call a pact. Ffuuck yah muthafuckin PACT OF STEEEEELLL!!!111

>>3141196
Anti-Communism?

>>3141196
Because he was fucking retarded.

>>3142119
Thanks to uncle sam

>>3141509
Underrated post

>>3141196
He wanted clay

>>3142159
It isn't. "Pact of Steel" is just what the (mostly British) Press called it. The formal name was the "Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy".

>>3142973
Well, according to Wikipedia, Mussolini came up with the name
>After being told the original name, "Pact of Blood", would likely be poorly received in Italy, Mussolini proposed the name "Pact of Steel", which was ultimately chosen.
Kek

>>3141509

kek