@Elessar My favourite was when we liberated Italy from their best friends, the Nazis.
Here we are in your home town right after liberating Monigo concentration camp.
Considering your recent bad behaviour you should think yourself lucky we didn’t ransack the place like we normally do and put half of Venice in the British museum. Perhaps we were unable to establish what you had confiscated from Jews.
@AdmiralPrune Yeah and without the Americans you'd be speaking German right now. Forget entirely about conquering the south of Europe
You're also conveniently forgetting about the role of the Italian resistance in liberating Italy, and the fact that Mussolini was shot and hanged by Italians, not by Americans, Brits or French troops.
Either way, the post was about the British imperial era, which is definitely before WW2, so maybe stick to that. There's no chance in hell the British empire could've established a colony here during the Venetian Republic days either
@Elessar Yes and without us the Americans would be speaking French so we’re all square there.
Yes, I suppose you hanging your own leader makes up for you goosestepping around the Balkans and Africa for the 3 years prior doing exactly what Hitler told you. Right? Right??
No chance of a Venetian colony? I imagine the Germans thought that about the allies carving up their country, until it happened.
I mean it’s not like Venice had a reputation for coming under foreign empires. Oh hang on France and Austro Hungary have something to say about that…
@AdmiralPrune The Americans, not us. That's the point.
Hanging out own "leader" spared us from getting nuked twice or having been split by the US and the USSR, so I'd say that was a win. A "leader" that at his peak was supported by ~30% of the voters btw. Probably Farage right now has more supporters both in relative and absolute terms than Mussolini ever did lol. Let that sink in.
Yes, I suppose you hanging your own leader makes up for you goosestepping around the Balkans and Africa for the 3 years prior doing exactly what Hitler told you. Right? Right??
Rich whining about 3 years of idiotic fascist policies of the country that hanged its own leader, from the country with over 2 centuries of slave trade dominance, in the very post titled "Apologize? I think not" lmao
@AdmiralPrune The Roman Empire isn't Italy lmao. Last I checked it contained also modern France, modern Spain, part of modern Britain. Should modern Italy take responsibility for that as a whole?
Also, it isn't me making non-ironic posts titled "Apologize for the crimes of the Roman Empire? I think not" lol
@AdmiralPrune Yeah and we've seen how that played out. Pretty much everyone is in agreement that had Hitler been defeated before he accrued as much power, rather than kicking the can down the road with totally futile "peace" attempts, WW2 would've been much shorter or could've even be avoided entirely. Pretty much the same idiotic error we're making with Russia right now.
The fascists did. Over 66% of the country didn't support that. Go check how Mussolini took power, it wasn't by democratic means, unlike Hitler, but essentially a royal decision following a violent takeover/march. The same royal that could've ended Mussolini's rule before it started. The last *fair* election, one year before, was won by Socialists. Italy's got rid of its monarchy ever since btw, after getting rid of Mussolini, to further remove that exploit. And that also happened via popular vote. Does Mussolini's fall resemble a defeat of the fascists, or a defeat of Italy, acknowledging all this? Go tell to whoever wrote that dumb headline.
