We aren't people, we are countries. Sure, we may diplomatically seek information and chat a little bit, but we are ROLEPLAYING. All unrealistic disregards for a nation's intentions, in order to put the world in the hands of a set of friends, obviously played out before the game even started, is metagaming in my opinion.
This isn't a clan circlejerk, we are playing highly in-depth countries with their own backstories (ones that we didn't decide). This is what makes these Nation RPs different from Earth x.0 RPs. Turning DRAMATIC courses (this is alternative history, after all) in order to help a friend, not a country, is dumb. If the country you are helping actually has no reason to like you, you can't like each other. Period. The people have tensions, the government has tensions, therefore you must have tensions.
We aren't reading a textbook and playing it out, but we definitely aren't throwing one away.
However, I'm not talking about the current situation.
Japan allying Germany to cuck it into giving it islands is indeed loving brilliant, however, there should be a little bit of unrest for undermining a friendship that was just formed (in the eyes of the citizens).