Articles 3 & 5 of the Tripartite Pact are unclearly formulated. Was this standard for the period?
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It was "diplomatese." The gist of the pact was that the three parties did not have to help each other against their existing enemies or Soviet Russia, but only against the one, great and foreseeable potential common enemy--the United States.
It was not a "typical" pact, because the circumstances were unusual; there was basically only one country that fit the mold of "a Power at present not involved in the European War or in the Japanese-Chinese conflict." and also was in no way party to "the political status existing at present between each of the three Contracting Powers and Soviet Russia."
Other pacts, such as that of the Triple Alliance, were more explicit because there was more room for misunderstanding.
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That's mostly owing to the fact that, while most defensive alliances are signed in peacetime, in this case all the parties involved were already at war.
Usually defensive alliances are made to deter declarations of war. The weird situation here was that all the involved parties were already at war, and weren't looking to immediately link up their ongoing wars (WWII and the Second Sino-Japanese War).
The point was to strengthen their diplomatic hands against major powers that weren't already involved in those conflicts, in particular the Americans. But specifically naming the USA in an alliance document would itself be a rather hostile act, so they couldn't do that either. Hence all the weasel-words about ongoing conflicts.
The line item about the Soviet Union was a bone thrown to placate them for not being allowed on as signatories. They were in fact interested in signing the alliance, but Germany was preparing to invade them, and quietly worked to prevent their signature. Its fluffiness is a reflection of the fact that it had to be worded in a way that reassured the USSR without actually making a promise that would be broken by the upcoming invasion.
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