Continued Anglo-Japanese Alliance and Nazi-Soviet-Italian Axis

What if the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was not terminated and would lead to Anglo-Japanese cooperation against a Nazi-Soviet-Italian Axis? The only way to have the Soviets enter the Axis would be to have Hitler assassinated pre-1941 and replace him with a Nazi leader who accepts Stalin's proposal and conditions to enter the Axis. The only way the US could enter the war is if Alaska was suddenly attacked. With the Soviets on the Axis, it's likely Finland and Romania would likely join the Allies. (Romania would also be fighting Bulgaria and Hungary). How would a front in Central Asia between the British and Soviets turn out? Yugoslavia becomes a difficult question.
 

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Well a US-British alliance is pretty much out if the Japanese move into China and the British are still allied. The French aren't going to allow supplies to move in to help China if the British bring the Japanese into the alliance. Maybe the British will have to fight the Soviets if there are border clashes in Manchuria? The Soviets won't withdraw support for China once they work with the Nazis and in fact the Nazis won't cut trade to the Chinese and can use Soviet routes to maintain trade. The British cannot allow the Japanese to fight the US so they will probably end up supporting the Japanese war effort in China (that alone with make the Japanese alliance a bigger drag than help). Really the British have little to gain from a Japanese alliance and a lot to lose. The British would end up having to bow out of the war if they maintain the Japanese alliance over US objections, as it will prevent LL, so the Brits will just run out of money and Germany wins by waiting them out, especially if Goering is Führer and brings the Soviets onside.
 
Nazi-Soviet? Errr... No. The Soviet is cock-blocking all the Nazi notion of "Living Space" and Communism, Slavs and everything about the Soviet Union is labelled as "wrong" in the Nazi ideology.

The M-R Pact was a pragmatic action, but I see no way Nazi Germany is going to be a solid ally to the Soviet Union.
 
Well a US-British alliance is pretty much out if the Japanese move into China and the British are still allied. The French aren't going to allow supplies to move in to help China if the British bring the Japanese into the alliance. Maybe the British will have to fight the Soviets if there are border clashes in Manchuria? The Soviets won't withdraw support for China once they work with the Nazis and in fact the Nazis won't cut trade to the Chinese and can use Soviet routes to maintain trade. The British cannot allow the Japanese to fight the US so they will probably end up supporting the Japanese war effort in China (that alone with make the Japanese alliance a bigger drag than help). Really the British have little to gain from a Japanese alliance and a lot to lose. The British would end up having to bow out of the war if they maintain the Japanese alliance over US objections, as it will prevent LL, so the Brits will just run out of money and Germany wins by waiting them out, especially if Goering is Führer and brings the Soviets onside.

What if the British threatened to terminate the alliance should Japan invade China or fight the US?
 
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