WI: Italians win Italo-Ethiopian War

What happens if the Italians succsesfully defeat the Ethiopians, and make it apart of Italian East Africa?
 

Wolfpaw

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Mussolini may direct his energies at Greece/the Balkans earlier, assuming Il Duce ascends to power as per OTL.
 
Have to admit I am more familiar with the second one than the first one, but it does sound like an interesting premise. Perhaps if buoyed by success in Abyssinia, the Italians will push harder to obtain concessions and territorial holdings in China. IOTL the Qing flat out refused to negotiate with the Italian consul as a result of the perceived incompetence and laughable failure to subdue Abyssinia.
 
Well the improved Italian self image on the geopolitical scale may well butterfly Benny the Moose away. He and his ilk were always complaining about how Italy never got her due, the "Mutilated Victory" in the First World War being but one example of this supposed trend, which dated back to the defeat in ... yep you guessed it.
 
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