Minimum Fascist irredenta in the Balkans

The title may seem a bit odd, but I have a question on Fascist irredenta for all those knowleadgable.

During the few times the issue of Fascist irredenta came up during my elementary and high school education, both my teachers and my schoolbooks insisted that Fascist Italy couldn`t survive ideologically if it didn`t start wars to expand its borders.

Now, my question is what`s the minimum territory Italy should hold in the Balkans to satisfy the fascists? Is it the OTL pre-WWII territories? Could it be even less than that?
 
I'm not really sure what the question means, sorry!

I would have thought people would have been satisfied with a protectorate over Albania, rather than the dual crowns thing, if that's any help

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Grey Wolf

It`s rather simple. For example this map shows the maximum extent of what Italian irredentists wanted and what Italy held IOTL in the Adriatic, (Montenegro and Albania are not shown). So this is the "upper limit".

What I`m asking is what would be the "low limit", i.e. what is the least ammount of territory Italy could hold in these areas for the fascists to deem further annexations unnecessary.

Like, is Albania and the Julian March enough to sate Italian expansionism, without needing to annex the Adriatic Islands, Dalmatia, Zara, Montenegro and Fuime?
 
During the few times the issue of Fascist irredenta came up during my elementary and high school education, both my teachers and my schoolbooks insisted that Fascist Italy couldn`t survive ideologically if it didn`t start wars to expand its borders.
Well my initial reaction is to question this main assumption. Francoist Spain for example did well enough for itself with only their civil war and seems to of been content with Spanish Sahara and parts of Morocco, they didn't go on wars of conquest - well except for cynically using the invasion of Russia to get certain inconvenient people out of the way by getting them to volunteer for the Blue Division to help participate - and managed to survive long enough. But then that could get us into a debate on whether they were suitably authentically fascist or not.
 
Fascist Italy would have, and IIRC actually did, claimed all the adriatic regions that used to belong to the Venice Republic.

Getting them would have been a completely different question, of course.

Anyway, I would say that rather having to go to war to prove their identity as fascists, Mussolini and co. would have gone to war only if the right opportunity would have come, depending on the post-ww2 situation.
 
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