Do they have the moral, spiritual, and material tools to fight this fight?
As for the material, he believes it matters little how many percentages of the raw resources they have control over, it depends more on how they use what they have. He refers to the rationalization, and the changing over to total war. He sees the defensive operations (and shortening the distance to the front and of the front) of 1943 on behalf of the Germans, and the stop of the Japanese advancement is a way of saving the resources for more suitable moments to deploy.
The spiritual basis of the alliance is expressed in the political contract of 1940, and the economical contract of 1943. These years it seemed they had conflicting interests. The declared goal for the Germans was to break the previous order and install a National Socialist one in place. The Japanese was to break the Anglo-Saxon power and build the East Asian Großraum. Speculation arose from the ambivalence, that the Germans don't want the Anglo empire to crumble, just change it to National Socialist (essentially building a Germanic global empire). From 1943 January, the Germans made steps to dispel the gossip, and expressed they were fighting for the same goal. They separated the European Großraum (containing Africa), acknowledged the Japanese plans (and that India and Australia belongs into the East Asian Gro$raum), and agreed on the dismantling of the Anglo-Saxon global empire. The final step in the spirit of this cooperation was that both parties recognized Chandra Bose's government, and goal to free India under the British rule. The Tripartite Pact showed their unity in goal and will.