You’re right!
The Italians might have won the war for us.
They got bogged down in the Balkans and the Germans had to rescue them, delaying the kickoff of Barbarossa, which mired the Germans down in a winter they weren’t prepared for, and, arguably, saved the Soviets.
They also got the Germans tied up in North Africa.
Without the delay to Barbarossa and their drain on German resources, the German might have won!
Exactly. Even the Greeks kicked their butts.
I have read historians make the case that because of 1941 wet spring weather, swollen rivers, muddy roads, etc., Hitler could not have launched Barbarossa before late June without encountering the same problems he had that fall.
The real problem was that in 1941 the German Army was fit for good-weather summer-time fighting only.
Compare the Germans' premier tank at that time, the Panzer Mark 4, to the Soviet T-34: 
