October 3, 2025, will mark 90 years since Italy invaded Ethiopia.  The second Italo-Ethiopian War that followed lasted until May, 1936 and resulted in Ethiopia’s subjection to Italian rule. Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator, sought vengeance from Italy’s humiliating defeat in Ethiopia forty years earlier.  More importantly, Ethiopia provided Italy a critical link between its other East African territories – […]