What the fuck did they want?

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Power

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Italy wanted relevance.
Japan wanted glory.
Neither got either.

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Resources.
Italy and Japan were completely dependent on imports for all raw materials required for industrialization, and said imports were a Damocles' sword constantly held over their mataphorical heads in foreign policy dealings with other powers.
Italy in particular only aligned itself with Germany after the SoN cut trade, they were actually very hostile until the mid 30s. Mussolini loathed Hitler, but he hated Italy being an irrelevant agragrian shithole more.

clay

>>2117558
Judging by their plans to split America down the Rockies and Russia down the 70°E, I'd guess "Everything.".

>>2117558
germanys dick

Italy: fourth shore
Japan: Monroe Doctrine, Asian version

They did it primarily for the Bants.

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Italy wanted to rebuild some sort of empire and tried to do so by playing Britain &Frances game post WW1, but when Mussolini kept getting cucked by them, he decided to side with Hitler and basically just ride the nazi coat tails into empire/relevance

Japan wanted an empire to, which they had been building since 1900 and were just doing to Asia what Germany was doing to Europe at the time

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Respect.

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Italy wanted to rebuild the roman empire or some shit and wanted into relevancy

Japan wanted natural resources because their island literally doesn't have any and they couldn't develop so they did what everyone did at the time and invaded for clay