AHC: United States military bases post-WWII in Russia and China

In the OTL aftermath of WWII, the United States was ended up establishing some overseas military bases in foreign countries, e.g. Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea. The challenge is to make those military bases to be established and/or have been established in both Russia and China at the aftermath of ATL WWII. The PODs can be anytime after 1939.
And anyway...what would be the consequences? A much earlier US hyperpower?
 
For China, the POD is very esay to find.

If the USA were more friendly to the KMT and Chang-Kaï-Tchek, they will support him in the fights against the Communists in 1945 and 1946. General Marshall will not press the Nationalists forces to the differents ceases of fire that saved communists troops during the fights in Mandchuria in early 1946. So the Communists will be defeated even if they managed to continue some guerrilla wars in some remotes places from China.

Probably, the USA will maintain at first some military presence as military mission to the KMT forces and when the Cold War will be declared, you will have some bases in north-eastern China near the north Korean or the Soviet border...

For Russia, it is more difficult...
 
How about a scenario where the Western Allies and the Soviets accidentally declared war on each other after the fall of Germany, and then followed by a successful, albeit costly, Western Allied Barbarossa?
 
How about a scenario where the Western Allies and the Soviets accidentally declared war on each other after the fall of Germany, and then followed by a successful, albeit costly, Western Allied Barbarossa?

How do coutries "accidently declare war" on one another?
 
A small incident here, some confusion there, lots of tension added to the mix, and boom! A war no one intended to start.

That would never happen. Stalin would immediately tell his generals to chill out and then would proceed to shoot whoever was responsible for the incident. War with the west was the last thing he wanted after WW2, and the west didn't want to fight a war with the Soviet Union either.
 
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