>>19741160Perhaps it was how they were able to modernize their country so fast while their neighbors were unable to reform. That and beating a white nation in a war. Russia might have been a weak white country, but it still was considered a global power. The idea of any non white country beating a European power was unfathomable. Out of all the countries run by savages, they were the closest to acting white. If you want something more practical, Hitler wanted allies and Japan wasn't subverted by the same people that destroyed the west. Unfortunately, Japan let this go to their head and decided to play with the big kids and steal European colonies. They learned the hard way that stealing from white countries was a bad idea.
