As someone recently reminded me, there is half an Italian cruiser half way up a mountain near Lake Garda, the photo from its opening between the wars is classic 😀
a problem with “just pay soldiers more and eliminate military pensions and disability benefits” stance is that enlisted soldiers generally are young, bad at managing money, and need systemic intervention to avoid the military becoming a “broke violent man” generator
This obsession with the way cities names are written in a foreign language screams national infertility complex.
Imagine Russians complaining that Moscow isn’t written Moskva, or Austrians that Vienna isn’t written Wien, The Hague instead of Den Haag, and so on.
It’s pathetic.