My first post

, I'm not sure whether its convention to introduce oneself, but I shan't bother.
It strikes me that, even following the Savoyard unification of Italy, Italy was fairly impotent by European standards. Hell, they only managed the unification with French and Geran help to begin with. Then, later on, they got beaten by
Ethiopia.
Lets not even mention their awful performance in the World Wars.
As an individual of Italian descent(though not born there), I can't help but feel embarrassment by their performance. Thats where my long winding dullard of a post actually gets to the point.
How could Italy have a more succesful post-unification experience? In terms of military endeavours, territorial expansion and economic potence.
Also ideally reducing the size of the Italian Diaspora somewhat(excluding immigration to Italian controlled colonies), though I suspect a large diaspora is inevitable.