Has there ever been a more useless ally
>>139738751
>Has there ever been a more useless ally
>>139738751
>destroy 2 english battleship
>keep half of the royal navy in our sea
>almost took malta but hitler's autism prevented us from launching an attack
>the original plan to invade greece was via sea but the german took all the romanian oil
>the italian army in egypt sacrified themself to let the DAK escape at el alameim
>save 90% of the convoy going to supply rommel
>created your fucking ideology
>send 200k soldier in russia
>these soldier were the only one to advance in the russian winter
>the german in tunisia surrendered before anyway
>opened an hole in the russian encriclement(only army to break it)allowing thousand of german to save themself
>created some of the best fighter of the war(kurt tank said this)
>all of this without oil
>>139738751
Yes
>>139739845
>all of this without oil
You had olive oil.
Don't worry, it is just friendly banter by them. We still like you and japan-chan.
>>139740812
Its not fun
Our soldier in Russia saw the worst destiny trying to defend the flank of stalingrad against an army 9 times bigger
most of them didn't even made it back
>>139739845
It's a nice try, but it's very hard to see the Italian armed forces in WW2 as anything but horrific incompetents. Only your frogmen are worthy of any praise at all.
>invade France and loses hundreds of men to a small squad in a mountain base just so that Mussolini can pretend he did something
>try to invade Egypt
>get absolutely BTFO
>have to get German support
>try to invade Greece
>get absolutely BTFO
>have to get German support
>half of the Italian navy is blown up at port by a bunch of wooden piece of shit Mosquitos inspiring the Japanese to do Pearl Harbour
>Royal Navy forced to stay in the Med to protect Gibraltar-Suez-Singapore route
>getting trashed in East Africa
>switch sides pretty much instantaneously when things start to go wrong
>>139741521
France,greece and the initial phase of the egyptian campaign were embarassing indeed but consider that
>can't use tank in mountain so had to resort to pure infantry attack against greece and france
>the first phase of the invasion in egypt was totally out of supply and without armored forces
>pointless,only the Giulio Cesare could't be repaired to be combact effect til the end of the war,our worst defeat was at cape matadan where 2 cruiser got ambushed by 3 fucking battleship in the night
>if our navy sucked you would't have dedicated such a big force to protect the route
>east africa was actually one of our best front:they actually got the honour of weapon
>the king and badoglio changed sides to save their ass
>>139741478
What about in WW1 when Austria-Hungary, while bogged down in the balkans, Romania, and the Eastern Front against Russia, while simultaneously managing to hold the line against the Italians?
Mind you, Austria-Hungary wasn't much of a power anyways, and relied on manpower from nationalities that weren't even their own.
>>139742083
>that delusion
Stick to pizza making senpai even your olive oil has become shit
>>139742716
i think that every soldier that died in war have to be respected
Obv italian celebrate vittorio veneto but i don't think anybody think that the austrian were coward