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Our government tended to be realist - even tho they didn't pursued Realpolitik all the time and they could be fooled if someone played on their hopes and dreams - they didn't planned our military to face such powers as Germany or the Soviet but they knew we have to be ready to stand ground against one of our neigbours as their cooperation seemed less and less possible. Late summer of '38 our leaders got an invitation from Hitler and they traveled to Berlin. He offered us back Northern Hungary with Kárpátalja ie. the whole region what Czechia got in Trianon. Out of friendship? No. In this case our interests overlapped he wanted Czechia in whole or just the parts of it doesn't matter. But he wanted something in return, he wanted us to initiate the war. Horthy and the other diplomats declined. Supposedly they didn't see this possible but I believe they wanted to keep the Agreement of Bled as well. So this didn't happen but our Italian connection came in handy now, in the Munich Agreement the Italian party insisted for a settlement with Poland and Hungary too. This culminated in the First Vienna Award. We got less but at least this could be called as a correction. On the other hand we got Tiso's puppet state onto our back. Oh well. The next request of joining forces with the Germans arrived when they planned the attack against Poland. I think the bare minimum was to allow them to move their troops across our country as we had common border with Poland now. Poland however was considered a friendly state and the current government of ours was resolved to keep the country out of war on the side of Germany. This was a desperate attempt to appease the British diplomacy. It was desperate because since the end of the '20s the Brits turned less and less flexible in the question of the revision and by the middle of the '30s they supported no territorial changes. They said to London we have to go through Prague. And Prague was done by '39. Still they warned our government again and again that our declared friendly attitude toward the UK isn't enough we have to make do with our neighbours. They understood our revisionist politics but they rejected it in practice and they kept to this.