A thought disturbs me.
Mussolini in 1943, was under immense pressure to sign a peace treaty with the Allies, who were poised to invade Italy after having captured Sicily. He refused to abandon Hitler, and was deposed by the King and disowned by his party.
Hitler, although fighting a desperate battle on the eastern front, needing every man he could get to resist the Russian advance, rushed troops into Italy via the Brenner pass, fought bitterly and kept the Allies from taking italy, and killing Mussolini, for a year and a half.
A thought disturbs me.
Even before the war was over, Stalin suspected Churchill of postponing the attack on Germany so that the USSR would be brought to its knees. The British while advancing aginst the Germans a few months later, wanted to rush ahead so that Berlin would not fall to the Russians.
The thought disturbs me. Should we be learning friendship or loyalty from- from the Wrong sources ? the Bad guys ? Because Mussolini, the power-hungry, somewhat stupid opportunist, lost his position rather than betray his ally, and Hitler, the ruthless, communist-hater, whose ultimate goal in life was Germany winning wars and being Great, took troops out of his armies combatting the selfsame Commies, his last hope for salvaging any pride, and sent them to the aid of his bumbling, stumbling ally, whose cause was pretty much already lost.
It's all wrong.
Or I really don't know life at all.