ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl
Strategically, the better investment would have been in a large and effective submarine force that was capable of working in concert with the Deutsche Kriegsmarine.
Italy joining the war on the side of Germany was not a fate accomplie. In WW1 the Italians were on the Allied side. As late as may 1940 the British Ambassador was still urging Italy to join the war on the Allied side.
Italy made no strategic plans with a vew to joining Germany in any war.
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