Hitler has to be one of the most overrated military leaders in the whole of history compared to just about any other. I feel like the only thing he got going for him was smooth talk and that is how he got enough of a following to both start his rather dumb plan and keep supporters of it even today.

That's a blatant lie. Italy's territories stalled the Allies for years, and are part of the reason why Germany lasted as long as it did. Mussolini also spent a lot of manpower for Operation Barbarossa, way more than Hitler did for any of the other campaigns