What is a situation where the Japanese keep their holdings in Manchuria, Mongolia, Korea, etc. after a (not necessarily OTL's the) Pacific War?
What is a situation where the Japanese keep their holdings in Manchuria, Mongolia, Korea, etc. after a (not necessarily OTL's the) Pacific War?
What is a situation where the Japanese keep their holdings in Manchuria, Mongolia, Korea, etc. after a (not necessarily OTL's the) Pacific War?
Japan isnt taking anything off the U.S.S.R....
The U.S.S.R will never swallow that loss of land and Japan's army is a badly led WW1 rabble that is no match for the Red Army in open battle end of story.
Yes, it would be unable to beat the Red Army that is in fact correctr, because for one thing the Soviet forces in the Far-East were well led despite the purges. Also they were a modern army, the Japanese Army was a WW1 relic at best.
The major weakness that Japan exploited during the Russo-Japanese War was logistics, Russian logistics in 1905 were utterly appalling as was their leadership,. The Red Army doesn’t have these handicaps, in fact it would be better supplied than it’s Japanese foes despite them being far closer core territories.
What is a situation where the Japanese keep their holdings in Manchuria, Mongolia, Korea, etc. after a (not necessarily OTL's the) Pacific War?
The U.S.S.R will never swallow that loss of land...
... and Japan's army is a badly led WW1 rabble that is no match for the Red Army in open battle end of story.
Also why would Japan be so keen on collecting empty steppe and forests, when all China lies to the south?
So in order for Japan to not attack China you'd need it to have a regime in power not crazy enougth to attack the Soviets...
... which butterflies eveything you posted Don Lardo
So the imperial Japanese Army that defeated Russia not many years before
would be unable to defeat a Soviet Army that had had any officer considered a threat, (i.e. competant), removed from office either by exile, imprisonment or execution leaving a dispirited, badly trained and incompetantly led force that was the Soviet army prior to about 1942?
If Stalin's purges take place, even if they were the bloodless, (mostly), sort of post WWII, it still leave the Soviet Union in too weak a position from a leadership perspective to defeat the Japanese army. Especially if Barbarossa takes place as per the OTL. Moscow is more important than Siberia. The Japanese were not supermen, but they had high morale and were highly motivated, not something that could be said of the majority of troops in Siberia, (who weren't Siberian, mostly western Russians of dubious political "reliability").
The attacks on the western powers were undertaken with a handful of light infantry divisions.