Making fun of Italy’s military record feels like punching down. They’re a like 40 year old smoker in an intramural league that spends half of every season too injured to play who “could’ve gone pro” if not for the injury freshman year of high school and feels they get snubbed by not winning MVP. Their saving grace is that their primary borders are with the Swiss who don’t want to fight and Austrians who are merely incapable.
Now Germany, that’s a country that can spectacularly lose a war. They’ll develop advanced technology, display innovative tactics on the battlefield then fucking run out of gunpowder because they picked a war on two fronts. Then 20 years later they’ll pick another war on two fronts and lose it because once again they used everything they had stupidly. It’s not that they’re bad at war, it’s that nobody’s as good at war as they think they are
Honestly, Italy has a much worse record, yet they don’t get nearly as much flak for it. It’s curious.
That being said, even knowing it’s incorrect, I have been socially conditioned to find the occasional French war joke amusing.
Making fun of Italy’s military record feels like punching down. They’re a like 40 year old smoker in an intramural league that spends half of every season too injured to play who “could’ve gone pro” if not for the injury freshman year of high school and feels they get snubbed by not winning MVP. Their saving grace is that their primary borders are with the Swiss who don’t want to fight and Austrians who are merely incapable.
Now Germany, that’s a country that can spectacularly lose a war. They’ll develop advanced technology, display innovative tactics on the battlefield then fucking run out of gunpowder because they picked a war on two fronts. Then 20 years later they’ll pick another war on two fronts and lose it because once again they used everything they had stupidly. It’s not that they’re bad at war, it’s that nobody’s as good at war as they think they are
Just you wait, der Fuhrer’s megatank will turn the tide against the Judeo-Bolsheviks once we figure out how to make it!