BigBlueBox
Banned
Let's imagine a scenario that is pretty much as the title says, Germany and the Soviet Union vs almost everybody else. After the Chinese United Front splits, the Soviets back Mao instead of Chiang. Later on, Gregor Strasser comes to power somehow in Germany. Upon assuming power he immediately nationalizes all foreign businesses without compensation, drawing the wrath of the United Kingdom and the United States. He also withdraws all aid to the KMT. With the KMT having no foreign backers and the CCP receiving support from the Soviets, the KMT begins losing the war until Chiang is desperate enough to ask the Japanese for help. The Japanese provide assistance against the Communists and in exchange the KMT has to recognize Mengjiang and Manchukuo. Japan and the KMT begin pushing back against the Communists, leading Stalin to increase support of the CCP. Meanwhile, Strasser forms an alliance with the USSR - this prevents the France-USSR treaty and USSR-Czechoslovakia treaty. The USSR-Germany alliance causes France and the UK to increase their military spending and try to get the rest of Europe onto their side. Czechoslovakia is strong-armed into giving territorial concessions to Poland and Hungary in order to satisfy the two countries. France refuses to end its occupation of the Rhineland until 1935, and doesn't allow Saarland to have a referendum. The Second Italian-Ethiopian War never happens. Strasser begins calling for the unification of all lands with Germans back to Germany, and Stalin calls for the return of all land formerly owned by the Russian Empire or inhabited by East Slavs. Tensions build up between the "Unholy Alliance" of Germany and the USSR and the "New Entente" of France, UK, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belgium, and Romania. Eventually, WW2 starts sometime between 1938 and 1940, with Strasserists in Austria attempting to overthrow the government and Germany invading in support. German troops launch a dash to the border with France (Rhineland wasn't demilitarized yet) and the Soviets launch and all out invasion of Central-East Europe, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, and the Raj. As the war in China escalates, it effectively merges with the war in Europe to become one big war. Eventually, fear of the Unholy Alliance begins to outweigh isolationist feelings in America, and the USA joins the New Entente. Other countries in Europe and the Near East are also forced to pick a side, with most if not all choosing the New Entente. How plausible is this scenario, and who would win?