In such an environment, it is easiest for ambitious people to exploit it.
"The failure of the unification wars in the last century was the beginning of our current Italian suffering. The damn Austria-Hungary and the government's blockheads turned our dream of Italian unification into a laughingstock for all of Europe."
"And during the world wars, the government's timidity caused us to miss the great opportunity to recover East Lombardy and Venice, politicians should shoot themselves for their cowardice and weakness, for they have doomed the future of all of Italy."
"Our great Italy should have been a powerful nation, with over forty million people and numerous excellent coastlines, becoming a Great Power in the Mediterranean."
"You must know, in the last century, the Italian Navy once surpassed Austria-Hungary, but now it can only shrink within the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea. This is a shame for Italians..."
