For god sake Italy
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For god sake Italy
Another silent victory for the unsung heroes of the special shitposting service
>>28855497
kek
>>28855476
I blame their gorgeous womens and above-all-with-french-cuisine tier meals.
Why fight when you have everything you need?
Btw Italians are a proud people and didn't took to kindly on Mussolini going bossy on everyone's ass.
Source: I live 10 mn away from italy
>>28855476
They did bribed the Taliban not to fight them. If you find yourself fighting alongside the Italians just shoot them in the back, one less future enemy.
>>28855476
you'd surrender too if you saw a bunch of aussies charging at you on emus
>>28855687
>>28855625
Also considering that Italy was a unified country for less than 100 years, they were still very sectional and proud. Working together was not the norm for their entire existence.
>>28855735
Spain has always had sectional and independence groups yet the state has remained in tact
>>28855735
Wasn't Germany only formed out on a lot of principalities in the 18/19th century?
>>28855755
Yeah but unified (more or less) under one sovereign unlike all the smaller nation/city states that made up Italy until the 1840's
>>28855763
And how many wars has a combined Germany won?
>>28855763
1871, after the franco-prussian war, yes.
austria pls
>>28855829
lolwut
>>28855784
Good point.
>>28855829
What?self defeat
>>28855860
they committed sudoku
>>28855867
>sudoku
actually i believe the term is sepultura
S T R A Y A
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>>28855476
Put toghether a deep hatred for each other (southerns and northerns) and two different languages (dialects were different enough for them not to understand). These problems faded in WWII, but there was a ridicolous command line, where orders were relayed from Rome. They sent entire platoons against fortified machinegun positions pretending it was someone else's fault.
Italian soldiers weren't bad, everything else was, from equipment to the commanders, in both wars. In the Isbuscenskij battle these fuckers won with a fucking cavalry charge against the ruskies human waves.
>>28855755
have you heard of the Spanish civil war?
>>28855836
>>28855860
It's fake.
It was invented by an Austrian republican in the 1830s for a military magazine shitposting about the Habsburgs.
Still a funny idea.
>>28855917
>against human waves
>With the camp under fire, Col. Bettoni Cazzago had no choice but to order, as a last resort, a cavalry charge with drawn sabers and hand grenades against entrenched infantry.
Also
>Corporal Lolli, unable to draw, as his saber was frozen in its sheath, charged holding high a hand grenade; Trumpeter Carenzi, having to handle both trumpet and pistol, shot by mistake his own horse in the head.[2]
>>28855937
austria shill pls gtfo
>>28855971
memester pls
>>28855964
That's pretty metal
Even the french have BTFO the Italian during WW2
>>28855755
>yet the state has remained in tact
You really need to read up on Spanish history if you honestly believe that.
>>28855829
Turkish and anti-Hapsburg propaganda, to be quite honest with you, family
My sides
>>28856287
at least we didn't lose a war to emus
>>28855933
Yes you fucking moor, franco won that shit and kept us united.
>>28855881
If the Japanese used a shotgun for ritual suicide it would be called Pantera
>>28856287
To be fair the japs booby trapped the fuck out of that island, and a crazy fog had settled in, leading to tons of jumpy grunts lighting each other up without using recognition signals.
>>28855964
kek, reminds me of pic related
>>28855917
During ww1 (and to some extent ww2), most of the officials spoke a complete different language from the troops.
Imagine being put into a unity were the lieutenant is the only one tactician and no fucking one understands what he says. Assuming that you trusted someone whose parents were most likely your own parents' enemy in some intestine skirmish.
Plus, Italy featured one of the worst army logistics of any nation during both the World Wars (summer equipment and no shoes before going to Russia, to tell you one).
>>28856645
>intestine skirmish
MFW
>>28856645
>intestine skirmish
GET IT TOGETHER RUSSIA
>>28856287
Most of the casualties were from a boat hitting a mine i think
>>28858723
>>28856287
>Both U.S. and Canadian forces mistook each other as the Japanese and, as a result of friendly fire, 28 Americans and 4 Canadians were killed, with wounded on either side.
you syrupy bastards!
>>28855964
>Corporal Lolli
So, rekt thread?
>>28859082
Those are always fun.
>>28856845
As bad as the food was there was likely a good bit of that too.
>>28859120
>British casualties and losses: All of them
>>28856316
Remember to vote Podemos or else you're a fascist :^)
>>28855476
Another one for the record books.
The original meme battle.
>>28859120
>strength- 85,000
>casualties- 85,000
Ouch.
>>28859120
http://www.powtaiwan.org/archives_detail.php?THE-TRUTH-ABOUT-THE-NUMBERS-IN-SINGAPORE-3
that 36,000 is supposed to read 300,000. the numbers were changed to make it seem like 85,000 men weren't just thrown into the jaws of death on a whim, better to make it seem like a wicked enemy victory than a devastating allied blunder.
>>28855497
>>28859653
MacArthur....what a hero
>>28859665
>I just can't understand how such a damn fool could have gotten to be general.
-Eisenhower on McArthur
>>28855881
its a joke asshat
>>28855476
Look up Battle of Adwa
Italy is literally France stereotypes.
>>28860214
>Joke
>You.
And let's not forget:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_evacuation_of_Tallinn
Want to make a putinist uncomfortable? Remind him/her of that!
>>28856287
>>28859120
>>28859653
>weeaboos bragging about WWII casualties for some reason
>pic related
>>28855476
That's Italy, nothing to worry about.
>>28855755
There was an armed secession campaign up until very recently.
>>28855476
Our general were, how can I say?, dumbasses
>>28856566
I read that as 'a crazy frog had settled in'. Fuck.
Yi Sun-Sin was a certified badass.
>>28860132
Based Truman.
>>28867648
And a good MacArthur quote for balance.
>>28867656
>>28855735
This is often overlooked, and explains a lot of Italy's military track record.
Even today there is a seemingly insurmountable rift between north and south, and regional differences still play a major role in internal politics.
To make things worse, the transition to a professional military and the abolition of compulsory military service has led to a dramatic imbalance in the make up of the forces. Most service members are southerners who turn to the state for a safe source of income, so it's basically welfare in disguise.
>>28867667
>>28855476
Meh, could be worse, they could be greeks or serbs
>>28866420
Heroic.
Based Koenig.
>>28867722
What the fuck did he meant by that
>>28855497
that was strangely amusing
>>28867426
He really only comes off as a badass due to the sheer incompetence and cowardice of pretty much every Korean naval official before him.
I don't think it's that much to ask that a military commander actually fight against the enemy.
>>28869169
It's a reference to his alleged affinity to his female slaves.
>>28855917
>italian soldiers weren't bad
Friend of mine has a gramps who served in Ethiopia. Got captured. Why? His entire squad decided to go swimming in the middle of a patrol.
They weren't the best, Anon
>>28869905
>mfw the founder of the US of A was a coal miner
>>28867729
>greeks
>worse than italians
t. mario mario
>>28859120
pretty hilarious story actually
Britain was caught with its pants down and immediately surrendered. They outnumbered the Japanese at least 2-3 to 1, but they got caught by surprise and automatically assumed they were gonna get fugged so the surrendered.
also, stop being so butthurt about this battle, jesus, Britain got BTFO deal with it
My grandfather was italian and fought in the war. He was pretty based, he got captured twice, once by the allies and once by the axis when he switched sides.
>>28856974
Russians cannot into strategy
>>28859653
>german strength: 200,000
>soviet estimate of casualties: 300,000
did they mix borscht with vodka to form some kind of vatnik cocktail
>japs btfo xaxaxa
>zhukov such great commander
>pls ignore our casualties tho
