A couple of clarifications:
@kcdzim:
It’s my understanding that you don’t declare war on powers that aren’t player powers. We’ve never required a declaration of war as japan to attack the Dutch colonies - attacking dutch colonies simply allows the UK and US to declare war on Japan.
It’s true that you don’t declare war on neutral territories - you simply attack them. You only declare war on powers.
However, the Dutch territories are not neutral. They are a special case, and are under the protection of UK/ANZAC. One must declare war on UK/ANZAC before attacking Dutch territories.
@kcdzim:
1. Strict neutral rule is activated - Japan should never attack both mongolia and soviet territories that border mongolia in the same turn, as the strict neutral rule supercedes.
If Japan attacks both a Mongolian territory and a Soviet territory bordering Mongolia in the same turn, the Mongolian territories are still strict neutral at the time of the attack (they don’t join the USSR until the end of the Combat Move phase). As a result, all strict neutrals (including Mongolian territories that were not attacked) immediately become pro-Allies. However, per the Soviet/Japanese Non Aggression Pact rule, at the end of the Japanese Combat Move phase the Mongolian territories that are still neutral (were not captured by Japan) become Soviet-controlled.
The end result of all this is that:
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The Mongolian territories that were attacked by Japan and captured are Japanese-controlled.
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The Mongolian territories that were attacked by Japan and not captured are Soviet-controlled.
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The Mongolian territories that were not attacked by Japan are Soviet-controlled.