Fascism really was the ideology of small minds and the envious. The conscious obsession with expanding Italy and Germany came to nothing. Fascists were definite “try hards”. It was the people who didn’t “try” (i.e. English & Portugese) who expanded, and expanded sensibly.
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This is because genuine expansion comes through a desire to explore and trade, not a crude desire to dominate. Even d’Annunzio knew this, he said he took control by not seeking to control—i.e. he was a Taoist.
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