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Read above. It's fucking embarassing. These mediterraneans couldn't fight for shit and were ultimately of no help at all to the Germans (rather the opposite, since Hitler wasted a whole lot of good units trying to save their pathetic asses, to no avail).
Explain yourself, Italy.
They were also traitors:
What did sweden do exactly?
Is this thread even visible?
We provided Germany with plenty of raw materials, which they desperately needed.
Actually they were commended by their own enemies for how well they did fight, considering how outgunned they were
Source? Sounds like pure bullshit.
Their navy got BTFO at Taranto and after that they knew they couldn't stop allied ships from landing at Sicily and from there quickly move to take the peninsula so their morale was essentially broken
Also wasted resources going into Ethiopia which held absolutely no strategic value
Their military would've been better served by participating in the invasion of France but Hitler wanted that all for himself so instead they had to into the Eastern meat grinder where only the absolutely hardest of hardmen could fight
Took in many Jews
>king surrender
>mussolini escape in the north
>be italian
>nazis want you dead now
>decides to defend your country from nazis who killevery itlian they can
>somehow blamed and labeled as a traitor for that
OH LOOK, IT'S ONE OF THESE AGAIN
Italians were cowards who tended to throw away their rifles and equipment and run at the mere notion of impending combat. Source: partisan grandpa.
have a happy Christmas, Cro-bro
You too Kiwi, you too.
in north africa we almost stopped the english without any equipment, the ones who threw the rifles away were the fascists who had nothing to fight for
Simply we were not ready for the fight, Mussolini wanted to join it only because he saw that Hitler was winning. We did a lot in the WW1, and anyway Mussolini was already busy with other things, like ambient. He only wanted to be a part of the victory.
>make fun of greeks and romans who founded civilization while u was living in mudhuts
>meanwhile entire population consists of faggots, SJWs, cucks.
SWEDEN YES
PAAASSSSSSSTTTTTAAAAAA
This is the right answer.
>greeks
(The same goes for Romans)
Not ready for fighting
Based on a mental and technical level
They had to invade countries which are pretty cool to them, for example Greece and that led to lack of motivation
>Sorry ahmed u still fail
>also ur cuisine sucks
Most of our grandfather didn't share Mussolini's "dreams" for Italy. A lot of them fought for the King, but they were outgunned, outnumbered and badly led.
But they were in no way cowards.
600 soldiers from the Italian Savoia Cavalry with only sabres defeated 2000 Russian soldiers armed with mortars and artillery.
Our Alpini are the reason so many people managed to came back from the Russian front.
Most of our grandparents came back ON FOOT from Russia.
It takes a lot of courage to charge Russian and English armored tanks in a shitty Carro Veloce.
The "Italian are cowards" is just a shitty British meme.
Whoa I actually know the answer. ...the king vittorio opposed the modernization effort in the late 20s early 30s and mussolini appeased him to try and keep the government stable and also spend less money
Also the navy went battleship doctrine instead of carrier
>sweden
>...the king vittorio opposed the modernization effort in the late 20s early 30s and mussolini appeased him to try and keep the government stable and also spend less money
Also Mussolini choosing bad leaders and giving important roles only to his lap-dogs.
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Is it just one butthurt swede or all swedes just got butthurt by this pic?
>Source? Sounds like pure bullshit.
Read Rommel's quotes
>The German soldier has astonished the world; the Italian Bersagliere has astonished the German soldier.
>The Italian command was, for the most part, not equal to the task of carrying on war in the desert, where the requirement was lightning decision followed by immediate action. The training of the Italian infantryman fell far short of the standard required by modern warfare. … Particularly harmful was the all pervading differentiation between officer and man. While the men had to make shift without field-kitchens, the officers, or many of them, refused adamantly to forgo their several course meals. Many officers, again, considered it unnecessary to put in an appearance during battle and thus set the men an example. All in all, therefore, it was small wonder that the Italian soldier, who incidentally was extraordinarily modest in his needs, developed a feeling of inferiority which accounted for his occasional failure and moments of crisis. There was no foreseeable hope of a change for the better in any of these matters, although many of the bigger men among the Italian officers were making sincere efforts in that direction.
>implying italy was worth something for the past 500 years
You can count on a pathetic Swede to try and divide Europeans.
I think you confused Italy with Greece
Italy is still a very important country
>25% Greek,25% Italian,50% German
>mfw
Jealous mediterraneans are constantly shitting on nordic/germanic people here, so I am happy to do the same thing in return.
Really? Too bad Romans and Greeks built the civilization you are currently living in you retarded piece of trash.
Man we aren't shitting on Nordic, only on Swedistan, learn the difference between Nordic and Sweden, now you are the niggers of Europe.
>be southern Europe
>kebabbed for hundreds of years at a time
>A-A-ANCIENT GREEKS WERE TURKIC
kys
all nordic trash needs to be eliminated, they are genetically autistic and retarded as well
ps. dinarid master race
t. turkic nigger
Because italians didn't actually want to fight but got forced into by their government
Your king was a fucking sellout pussy. He didn't even keep his throne and was exiled like a bitch.
>divide and conquer bait thread
>everybody fails for it
Shameful.
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I think Sweden shits enough on us as is
now reform constitution luigi
We'll do our best jamal
Greetings, Greek brother.
why is western europe so small compared to america? why dont they all join together into one country so they can be at least somewhat relevant?
Look at your country now, faggot.
Paint the Mediterranean white and it's 100% accurate
Everyone here shits on Sweden, specifically. Faggot.
>These Mediterraneans couldn't fight for shit and were ultimately of no help at all to the Germans
During the invasion of Scandinavia, Sweden kept neutral, but because much of their income was generated by exporting iron, they continued to sell it to Nazi Germany. Sweden would not help Finland fight off the Soviet attack, but 8,000 Swedes volunteered for the Finnish army. - Wikipedia
SO BRAVE SWEDEN WOW.
You were the Ikea merchant of WW2.
It wasn't necessarily the soldiers but the leaders. Italian soldiers performed well under German commanders (see Rommel or Kesselring) but their only military command was incompetent as it comes.
By the time of the allied invasion of Italy the vast majority of the Italian army had been killed or captured in Africa, they were a spent force. In hindsight the entire African campaign was a huge waste of both Germany and Italian arms that could have put to better use elsewhere.
What does this mean?
Your province and locality doesn't change by having some political union with other states.
This is best post ITT now stop fighting sons of Europa.
youre an asshole
lol I made the post on the left
>Left
T*rk
>Right
Byzantine Greek
He is already white
Also it needs to be noted that of all the major countries involved in WW2 Italy was by far the least prepared industrially for it. The Mediterranean could have been confined to an air&sea war but when you bring battleships to an aircraft carrier fight, you lose every time.
That's not what I'm talking about. There are plenty of people here who shit on the nordic/germanic race as a whole.
People constantly shit on you too, Canada, but you deserve it.
>88 get
Praised be Adolf our hero.
and we all know WHO is the best merchants by nature
>Pic
LMAO. Flippin' hilarious.
>You were the Ikea merchant of WW2.
Why was Sweden so worthless at any point in history?
topkek, what's the source?
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This
your countermeme is lame like your country
don't you have a hillary frog to post somewhere?
KEK
>Sweden
>worthless
Topkek.
en.m.wikipedia.org
"Sweden has a total of 33523 patents as of 2007 according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and only ten other countries have more patents than Sweden."
>1700
So what? Italians haven't been great since before germanic people conquered Rome.
>white infighting distraction slide threads
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stop with these posts sven
Don't reply to the lefty/pol/ raider. Not this Swede nor that Canadian. Report and move on.
Jag är nationalsocialist, ditt mähä.
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Stop the divide and conquer, we share the same European Homeland. Italians (and not) join the server.
>10 million bayonets
Is not about quantity benito..
germans arent nordic
>Sweden
Shut up cuck. The southern you go the based you become.
Enjoy you progressive/feminazi hellhole.
The Historical contribution of your country to western society is literally Pewdipie.
notice the flag, remember it
just another iteration of swedeposter trying to divide us with racebait
Literally the traitors of Europe
Thanks the EU for that.
Do they have one of these with an Anglo?
Because Mussolini was a smart man, at least in the beginning.
He saw greatness in Nazi germany and the hostility that fascism drew from everyone else, the best solution was to ally and piggyback on their success while striking first.
Unfortunately he went way over his head over time and he become more and more like a salty dictator killing everyone who disagreed with him and sending our young to the slaughter with shitty gear, untrained officers and basically no real advantage to gain but prestige for Mussolini himself.
kek, pretty much sums up modern day sweden
Need some niggers sweden?
Did Italians use Arditi during WW2 ?
Arditi was like Italian version of Stormtroopers during WW1 and they kicked ass.
Why so salty OP?
Did a border policeman in Italy sunk your boat?
>swedcuck
they couldn't handle killing europeans,unlike germans and anglos
This. Italian government and military structure just sucked.
Especially under German command the italian SS fought very well as well as the air force and regular troops of the republic salo.
For example its tiny airforce managed to cut off allied bombing raids from Africa reaching Germany completely
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I am 1/4 Sicilian..... WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?!
Steel, to be precise. Couldn't go full nazi tho cause they attacked our norg & dane bros.
>roman-greek-arab-norman-german-french-aragonese-italian-nigger
>Greekroaches can't wait to defend their mudshit Italian shitskin brothers
Who would have known