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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I just thought about ww2, and I just realized how egregious it is that the Japanese and Italians sided with Nazis.

They thought "yes, mhm, we are on that side".

[–] a_queer_one@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Don't sell Italy and Japan short.

Mussolini invented fascism, and did population-scale deployment of chemical weapons in Ethopia.. Imperial Japan are absolutely an all-time G.O.A.T of horrific war crimes.

Their behavior was egregious, and that's why they sided with the nazis.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 13 minutes ago

A slight nitpick but Japan didn't side with the Nazis. They had their own thing going on with China and simply saw the Nazis as an opportunity for some payback. It wasn't like they really bought into the Nazi ideology as didn't really apply to them. The Italians were all in on it though.

Had the war turned out differently there would have been a radical cultural difference between Nazi controlled Europe and Japanese controlled Asia. In the long run it would have probably led to another war because of the extreme cultural differences.