How a Far East war might reshape German alignment

Nazi Germany's response would depend on Hitler's priorities if Britain and the Netherlands were already fighting Japan. His racial worldview and preference for expansion into Eastern Europe might encourage him to court those states while widening their breach with Poland. In this reading, conflict with France and Britain was a means of securing Germany's western flank before turning east, rather than the regime's preferred opening war. That political logic explains Germany's possible choice of sides and remains explicitly counterfactual.