Why were the world war 2 axis leaders so aggressive?
The question itself is not entirely true. While there’s no doubt that Mussolini and Hitler were aggressive, other leaders can be debated in both prospectives. Fransisco Franco is hardly aggressive. He was responsible for making Spain “neutral” by giving lists of excuses in terms of how Spain was not ready to make any military commitments to Third Reich. He wasn’t a brilliant diplomat or anything like that, but he was clever enough to make sure Spain can profit from WWII and prevent themselves from making any costly commitment. Tojo has my sympathy. While war crimes that Japanese committed are intolerable, Japan was placed in the circumstance where they were pressured to expand. Japan committed to aid Britain and her Triple Entente in WWI in hope of getting some lands for Japan to have colonies with materialistic wealth for Japan’s survival. Japan was like Britain, struggling to maintain their world power by depending on their oversea colonies. Japan took the civil chaos in China as an
