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This is a common error I've seen in people's analysis. Sakhalin Oil Fields are most offshore and the ones onshore are some of the deep in the world, inaccessible using 1930s or 1940s tech. Those oil fields are completely undeveloped as of 1939. Development will take time, while creating an...

This info above is literally cherry picked from the same Wiki page that said the Japanese invasion would run out of oil within 6-12 months. The US and Allied wholesale embargo of Japan crippled their war industry, especially in terms of oil. And Siberia at the time was very underdeveloped...

Japan wouldn't participate in OP Barbarossa. They already had a taste of Soviet firepower and numbers in the 1938-1939 border conflicts. Type 97 Shinhoto Chi Ha was only fielded starting 1942. BT-7s and T-26s were more than enough to deal with the Type 95s and Type 97s. Soviets outnumbered the...