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The challenge: Have a European, or world, war where Germany and Italy are allied from the very beginning. In OTL Italy started off both world wars as a neutral, coming in on one side or the other later.

Mussolini only came in when France was crushed and it looked like it was all over.

The challenge is to have Germany and Italy be allied against other European powers from the very beginning. To use a 1930s or 1940s example, it could be starting a war with a joint surprise attack on the USSR or France. Or, it could be synchronized attacks on a couple smaller countries in central-eastern Europe and the Balkans that leads to a great power declaration of war on them both.

How can we get the Italian government to have the confidence to take a predatory rather than scavenging approach to European war?
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