WI: Hitler accepts Stalin's Axis entry proposal in Nov. 1940?

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With regards to Japan, why would the Japanese go to war with the Allies (primarily Britain) when they could easily get the concessions to stop supplies going to China that they got IOTL? I doubt that the British would reopen the Burma Road in October 1940 if they are hard pressed by Germany, Italy and the Soviets.

To get Singapore and the DEI, their own oil and acquire a major naval base from a dying empire at little cost.

If the Japanese did decide to go to war in late 1940, they would be attacking from southern China or Northern Indochina so no ground based air support. The attacking forces would have to rely on carrier based air support - and the Japanese were using A5M Claude Fighters which would have been comparable to the front line aircraft present in Malaya. It would be a confused struggle favoring Japan with the threat of US intervention or embargo lurking.

Indeed, but if they are getting the DEI they secure their own oil source and by attacking the Brits they remove a future threat to it. And in 1940 the Japanese were torn between attacking the Russians and attacking the Brits, their non aggresion pact, US embargo and Barbarossa decanted the decision for the attack south, another pact with the USSR plus the expectancy of a British collapse would offer a similar enticement.
 
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