So the use of examples on this forum is forbidden? This is the first I've heard of this.![]()
Alright, let's run through this again:
Remember the Weapons of Choice ISOT trilogy? We as the readers were expected to swallow that as a neutral (Ceasefire with Germany back to 1939 borders agreed to Jun 42) working in just 22 months:
1) The Sovs built up an entire set of new construction dockyards in the Soviet Far East
2) They built an entirely new fleet of warships- two aircraft carriers, multiple cruisers and destroyers, plus landing craft, with crews fully trained and ships operational (NO, no ASB's. Just Bad Sci/fi.)
3) Oh, I forgot the jets and ASW helicopters and Marines
All this in a place in Siberia that has HOW many days of warm weather?
The author, John Birmingham, seemed to think phrases like "slave labor" and "died by the millions" would just cover everything.![]()
So how does this exactly answer the OP's question of an earlier declaration of war by Russia on Japan in '42 or '43, or "prove the impossibility of such a rash Soviet action"? Note that there wasn't even any mention of the kamikazes afromentioned in the latter post.
If anything, it looks like a critique of the series (or personally, Final Impact, which I'll agree was poorly thought-out) that should be found here.