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Suppose that the European Theater of the Second World War is averted (Germany gets smacked down before 1939 or otherwise backs down before hostilities break out). Without the Fall of France, Japan would not invade Indochina, thus removing the OTL justification for the embargoes on Japan. In the absence of those embargoes, how long will Japan and China continue to fight, and who will win? Would the Soviets intervene at any point? Would the Americans eventually embargo Japan anyway?
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