Comment on Senatus Populusque Sardegna

  1. DogeoftheMarches on Chapter 3 Sat 09 Dec 2023 08:39PM UTC

    If they are, I can sympathize, because I could guess where that might come from. If you view your country as unfairly demonized or shortchanged, belittled or another demeaning adjective, you'd want to push back against that too. And that's a slippery slope. The logical leap from "were were better than that" to "we were the best" isn't huge. The Italians often get more flak than they deserve in the same way I'm sure the French are tired of the surrender jokes. It's a frustration I try to understand, and I won't demonize anyone for it. Because I've been there, I think we all have.

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    1. knight7272 on Chapter 3 Sat 09 Dec 2023 08:42PM UTC

      yeah

      the problem for the Italians they were fighting the top maritime power of the period which is a fight they were not geared up for

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      1. DogeoftheMarches on Chapter 3 Sat 09 Dec 2023 08:57PM UTC

        That's part of what I think the most interesting thing about the Mediterranean theater is. It's kind of a big cat and mouse game between a rising-star navy locked in a cage with the world's fading-but-still-assertive global hegemon. The fact a lot of the battles can go either way depending on how you view them is a testament to the incredible capacity for force preservation both powers managed to exhibit. From the Italian perspective, someone can be proud that they were never really decisively defeated and surviving and achieving victories while being stuck in a British box, and the British can be proud they managed to keep the imperial highway open, continued to conduct escort and convoy missions successfully, and displayed incredible creativity in conducting operations while naval resources are stretched across the world from the North to the Java Sea. At least, that's my read of it.

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        1. knight7272 on Chapter 3 Sat 09 Dec 2023 09:57PM UTC

          Yeah they were decisively defeated in the end as the British ultimately ran the Italians out of fuel which is what got them in the end

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          1. DogeoftheMarches on Chapter 3 Sat 09 Dec 2023 11:51PM UTC

            The axis powers special, for sure.

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            1. knight7272 on Chapter 3 Sat 09 Dec 2023 11:54PM UTC

              Yep and when they got to the point of surrender, the Nazi regime invading to install a puppet government

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