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Fascism has _always_ been incompetent.

Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time, just claimed he did and shot anybody who disagreed. There's a snopes about it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/loco-motive/

Some historicans had a great conversation about how poorly run nazi germany was, and the invasion of austria was because they'd run out of food and needed to steal gold to buy more: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-everything-vs-history-of-everything/id1598692909?i=1000674793848

And of course their military accomplishments were all meth ("pervitin"): https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/