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So WWII has been done and redone to death. However I don’t remember reading any thread regarding a scenario as the one I’ll describe.

Together with the deal made with SU (yes, the little known RM Pact) Germany makes a deal with Japan: if the Germans are successful in the Western European war theater, the Empire of the Rising Sun will follow the footsteps of Italy and take the chance to grab the Far-East European colonies.

The Japanese doubt the ability of the Germans to beat both France and the UK but plan to it, nevertheless.

Following the demise of the Netherland, Belgium and France the UK stands alone against a Nazi occupied Europe. British energies are stretched to the limit even with the help of the Dominions and the rest of the British Empire.

Summer of 1940, the Battle of England it’s at its height when the Japanese Empire let’s the hammer fall. The Japanese Navy sorties from the Home Islands and, bypassing the Americans holdings in the area, quickly attack the French, British and Holland holdings of SE Asia.

For starters I would like your opinion about two questions:

1 – How ASB is the possibility of such a deal between Germany and Japan being set in place? Please note that if smarter heads were at the driving seat of the Empire of the Rising Sun they would see the advantages of such a move: no direct confrontation – at least not of their initiative – against the USA and the possibility of gaining the so coveted territories full of the raw materials Japan needs against a much weakened oposition.

2 – In such an event how would the US react?
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