“It was a marriage of convenience”.
I really have to apologize for this but I don’t know what that means. I’m not much informed on that war, or any other war really. It was convenient to go to war siding with the Germans? Why not just stay out of the war? Wouldn’t that be even more convenient. I don’t get this?
Actually now that I think about it what did they have to gain by going to war against us and our allies anyway?
Politically, a “marriage of convenience” is an arrangement where two groups band together simply because they have a common interest or a common problem. It’s not for any altruistic reasons.
One of Japan’s aims in WW2 was to conquer the oil-rich East Indies. The large British base at Singapore was an obstacle to that goal. One of Germany’s aims was to occupy Poland. But Britain had told Hitler that would mean war
So here we have Japan and Germany, two countries half a world apart, with a common problem: Britain. Hence their alliance, a marriage of convenience.
That’s my understanding, anyway.