> Oh, Japan attacking Pearl Harbor/the US. If the Japanese Army faction would have won the internal struggle and had tried to attack the Soviets again in 1941, the USSR would have probably been toast and the US would have probably intervened only slowly and indecisively.
Where's Japan getting the oil to fight USSR? The deposits are all too far east [1].
Even with the US out of the war we were denying them steel / oil but the US embargo is much less effective without a pacific navy.
Japan didn't really need to win the war directly, it just needed to put enough boots on the ground to topple the USSR by helping Germany. The Soviets couldn't afford to send a few army groups to East Asia, especially not in 1941 or 1942.
Where's Japan getting the oil to fight USSR? The deposits are all too far east [1].
Even with the US out of the war we were denying them steel / oil but the US embargo is much less effective without a pacific navy.
[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/s1cbj6/a_1960s_map...