Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "The Axis were not natural allies" video.

  1. I think it would be more correct to say that the Axis was more or less a marriage of convenience, that developed because the three primary "partners" (Germany, Italy and Japan) were pursuing separate but parallel goals. The reason they didn't come to blows is because the spheres of regional dominance each was trying to gain did not really overlap (Europe and west Russia for Germany, North Africa and southern Europe for Italy, Asia for Japan). What unified the Allies more than anything else was their opposition to these goals and, in the case of the Soviet Union and Britain, fighting for their own survival against the aggressive Axis powers.
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  2. I don't think that Britain would have joined in a treaty or relationship with the USSR unless they absolutely had to (as what happened in 1941). One reason why Germany was able to rearm as much as it did was because many British politicians saw Nazi Germany as a counterbalance to the Soviet Union. This policy explains, in part, why Britain did not move more forcefully against Germany until after the annexation of Czechoslovakia (and partially why Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement).
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