>>119733606I mean both are right
Mussolini did it all first, Hitler did follow him in that sense although they only ripped off each other so much as they ripped off thousands of years of demagogues throughout history, fascism is more a new spin on something old not something truly new or different like people wish to believe it is, this false belief is mostly driven by the desire to label fascism, especially Nazism as uniquely evil in history which is more an attempt to whitewash the rest of history, but I digress.
When it came to WW2 Mussolini basically was Hitler's lackey, Italy's forces were more or less useless they couldn't even conquer Ethiopia, Hitler had to literally prop up Mussolini returning him to power as a clear Nazi puppet before the end, so he clearly became a lackey even if he didn't start that way.
