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Crazyjackson13 t1_j26bbkv wrote

Honestly the Italians were just something the allies wanted to use to stall the front, as they themselves had been in a serious struggle against the Germans, and stalling the Austrians was about the one thing they could do.

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Seienchin88 t1_j288t6d wrote

Yeah same for Romania.

But while it’s debatable if it wad a good choice for Italy, it was a terrible choice for Romania. What in earth were they thinking?

Romanias army was quite large but not really modern and poorly led. And worst - almost all their borders were with the central powers and they relied on Russia to somehow help them. And while they joined after the Brussilov offensive decimated the Austrian army, it also Meant the Russian army was tired and had heavy casualties as well and the Central powers had just defeated Serbia meaning the balkan was quite secure in their hands Imo the biggest blunder of WW1.

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Spyrith t1_j297vn6 wrote

As a Romanian we don't see our entry into WW1 as a mistake. It's considered a very wise move, since it garnered us a LOT of good will among the Entente and directly led to the unification of almost every single Romanian majority territory that existed outside the borders of the Old Kingdom of Romania. Post WW1 Romania was basically 2x the size and population of pre-WW1 Romania.

What really fucked us up was the collapse of the Russian Empire, since our war plans massively relied on them as the main force on the Eastern Front.

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Crazyjackson13 t1_j297t85 wrote

Yeah, the Romanians definitely joined thanks to the allies managing to convince them to help join the war effort, as by this time nothing was going well for the entente.

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