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China isn't in the war ITTL.

Even if not. This was before the T-34. Historically in 1938-39 the Soviets got the living shit kicked out of them against even lower quality Japanese formations. The Soviets just had numbers and didn't care about casualties. The T-34 was created specifically because of the experience at...

This topic came up on Space Battles a while back. Resources extraction in the Soviet Far East was minimal. Lots of stuff was there, but the infrastructure largely didn't exist. More oil would have been available in Manchuria already. As to rubber if they work with the Germans more they could...

Britain wouldn't do anything to piss off the US and the US was explicitly hostile to Japan. That is what ended the Anglo-Japanese treaty IOTL. So regardless of what Japan wants the UK basically has to remain hostile to Japan. Still given the conflict with the Soviets and potential hostility...

Could, but much depends on how FDR reacts here. After all he needs his back door to war and would desperately want to defend communism.

That's a good reason for them to stay neutral. The trick is how given how the IJA was out of control. Not sure if it would even be possible, but assuming there was a firmer hand over the IJA's leadership then it is entirely possible that the Soviets and Japanese then get into a war over their...