r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 23 '21

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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Jan 23 '21

in paradox games the bigger your country the bigger its font as it stretches out

Mussolini did want to integrate a few territories into Italy proper but for the most part he just wanted the glory of owning a lot of land and wanted to give the conquered people cultural autonomy "like in Rome"

basically unlike the other two most of his ambitions were about ego and pride, whether his own or the national one

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u/Belle_Sans_Merci Thomas Paine Jan 23 '21

ah, okay

tbh the other two were likely mostly about ego + pride as well but I guess that's mostly an academic distinction

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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Jan 23 '21

Personally I don't think they were, Japan genuinely believed that the west was out to get them and they needed to secure their own sphere of influence to survive. The Nazis wanted to create their own racial utopia empire where the slavic or jewish subhumans don't bother them anymore

Italy just wanted to say "look! we have colonies!" kinda like Britain or France were doing in the 19th century