WI: Italo-Japanese-Ethiopian Axis?

Inspired by my Japanese-Ethiopian Axis and the current Japanese-Ethiopian alliance TL I'm writing, I thought of this.

What if Italy, Japan and Ethiopia had managed to establish an alliance not too unlike that of Germany and the Soviet Union throughout the 20s and 30s?
 
Inspired by my Japanese-Ethiopian Axis and the current Japanese-Ethiopian alliance TL I'm writing, I thought of this.

What if Italy, Japan and Ethiopia had managed to establish an alliance not too unlike that of Germany and the Soviet Union throughout the 20s and 30s?
Ethiopia gets to pump out Africa for the Africans propaganda, and funds lots of anti colonial guerrillas depending on the financial largesse of the alliance and how strongly Britain or France would be willing to respond.
The biggest cultural impact might be on black nationalism and rastafarianism in the US and the Americas. Rastafarians worship an Ethiopian prince as a living god, (Ras Tafari = Prince Tafari) and view a "return to Africa as a spiritual state. ATL might associate rastafarianism with authoritarian rule the way pop culture connects European paganism and nazism.
Black nationalists in the US might be drawn to Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity rather than Islam as in OTL. People like Malcom X (pre-Hajj) were attracted to Islam because they say Christianity as a white man's/colonizers' religion. Instead there might be more African Americans drawn to a new Americanized form of orthodox Christianity.
This could make for interesting propaganda if people like Marcus Garvey or Malcom X become anti colonial guerrillas in "Nat Turner Battalions" or "Haile Selassie Brigades" as a mix of Che Guevara/Subas Chandra Bose analogues.
 
Ethiopia gets to pump out Africa for the Africans propaganda, and funds lots of anti colonial guerrillas depending on the financial largesse of the alliance and how strongly Britain or France would be willing to respond.
The biggest cultural impact might be on black nationalism and rastafarianism in the US and the Americas. Rastafarians worship an Ethiopian prince as a living god, (Ras Tafari = Prince Tafari) and view a "return to Africa as a spiritual state. ATL might associate rastafarianism with authoritarian rule the way pop culture connects European paganism and nazism.
Black nationalists in the US might be drawn to Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity rather than Islam as in OTL. People like Malcom X (pre-Hajj) were attracted to Islam because they say Christianity as a white man's/colonizers' religion. Instead there might be more African Americans drawn to a new Americanized form of orthodox Christianity.
This could make for interesting propaganda if people like Marcus Garvey or Malcom X become anti colonial guerrillas in "Nat Turner Battalions" or "Haile Selassie Brigades" as a mix of Che Guevara/Subas Chandra Bose analogues.
What about the effects on Italy and Japan?
 
What about the effects on Italy and Japan?
Ethiopia and Japan are far enough away that their relationship would be limited to trade and diplomacy, but Ethiopia would be almost Finlandized by Italy at first. There shouldn't be a contradiction between Ethiopian Pan-Africanism and Italy colonizing Arabs in Libya, but Eritrea and Somaliland are a much harder contradiction to resolve.
Before serious industrialization in Ethiopia, talking about an Italo-Ethiopian alliance is like talking about a Soviet-Mongolian alliance in the '20s. Later on it may be possible to develop a kind of fascist Sino-Soviet split.
 
Ethiopia and Japan are far enough away that their relationship would be limited to trade and diplomacy, but Ethiopia would be almost Finlandized by Italy at first. There shouldn't be a contradiction between Ethiopian Pan-Africanism and Italy colonizing Arabs in Libya, but Eritrea and Somaliland are a much harder contradiction to resolve.
Could there be the establishment of an M-R Pact-esque between all three countries?
 
There shouldn't be a contradiction between Ethiopian Pan-Africanism and Italy colonizing Arabs in Libya, but Eritrea and Somaliland are a much harder contradiction to resolve.
If Ethiopian pan-Africanism about uniting the whole of Africa then there is still is a contradiction. If it is one about uniting just Ethiopia then there is no contradiction.
 
If Ethiopian pan-Africanism about uniting the whole of Africa then there is still is a contradiction. If it is one about uniting just Ethiopia then there is no contradiction.
Why would Ethiopia wanted a united pan-African state in the first place? ITTL, you might see pan-Africanism focus more on regional unity.
 
That was because Albania was part of Italy. Ethiopia won't get French Somaliland because Italy would want it to connect it's colonies.
Wouldn't Italy be able to connect her colonies through providing backing in the construction of railroads connecting Ethiopia that allows her to access a wartime way to move resources and material?
 
Wouldn't Italy be able to connect her colonies through providing backing in the construction of railroads connecting Ethiopia that allows her to access a wartime way to move resources and material?
They could but it's nice to have it go through your territory and besides if Italy controls Ethiopia's access to the sea. It's far harder for Ethiopia to break out of Italy's sphere of Influence
 
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