Germany, Italy, and Japan lacked a practical shared supply system across the distances separating their wars. That limited their ability to provide direct operational assistance to one another. Their enemy lists also differed: Japan and the Soviet Union maintained diplomatic relations while their partners fought on opposing sides. An alliance label consequently did not create one fully integrated war or a common set of belligerents.
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An Axis alliance whose members fought different enemies
Geography, separate logistics, and Soviet-Japanese neutrality limited practical Axis cooperation.