The Japan-Germany Axis coordination was pretty incompetent and uncoordinated, good for us because there are many possible WW2 scenarios where Japan is more competent than just suiciding into the US navy in 3 years e.g a coordinated attack on the USSR that never happened that lead to many salty tears between them.
The US was defacto in a naval war with Germany for a few months by then, it was a matter of time before it became a shooting war so Germany more just made it official in a way that gained them a secured ally
The Japan-Germany Axis coordination was pretty incompetent and uncoordinated, good for us because there are many possible WW2 scenarios where Japan is more competent than just suiciding into the US navy in 3 years e.g a coordinated attack on the USSR that never happened that lead to many salty tears between them.
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oh Hitler's reason for that had nothing to do with helping Japan it was this beautiful piece of "philosophy":
"A great power does not wait for war to be declared on it, a great power declares war"
and that's basically all that informed Hitler's decision to declare war on the largest economic power in the world lol
Still not over the whole Weltpolitik I see
The US was defacto in a naval war with Germany for a few months by then, it was a matter of time before it became a shooting war so Germany more just made it official in a way that gained them a secured ally