What if the Allies bombed Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus?

IOTL, during WW2, before Germany attacked the Soviet Union, France and Britain contemplated on attacking Soviet oil fields in Baku from their air bases in Syria and Lebanon because the Soviets were exporting oil from there to Germany, feeding its war machine and making the Allied blockade less damaging. What if they actually carried out the attack? Would Soviet Union join the Axis? If so, how would that change the outcome of WW2? Thanks.
 

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IOTL, during WW2, before Germany attacked the Soviet Union, France and Britain contemplated on attacking Soviet oil fields in Baku from their air bases in Syria and Lebanon because the Soviets were exporting oil from there to Germany, feeding its war machine and making the Allied blockade less damaging. What if they actually carried out the attack? Would Soviet Union join the Axis? If so, how would that change the outcome of WW2? Thanks.
The Axis had not formed at the time of the planned bombing, the Tripartite Pact was signed in September 1940. The Pact of Steel with Italy was just a bi-lateral agreement and Mussolini would never let the Soviets join.
Without a doubt the Soviets attack the British and French in the Middle East, but that doesn't mean they fully ally with Germany. They might have a military agreement, but it could just be that the Soviets do what they want first and then Hitler tries to sign them on to something; IOTL the Axis negotiations with the Soviets was able getting them to focus their attention in the Middle East and away from Eastern Europe, which did not work, but here the issue is pretty much solved by Allied attack. In fact if the Soviets then agree to Hitler's terms Barbarossa might well be entirely avoided.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German–Soviet_Axis_talks#Molotov_travels_to_Berlin
 
For starters, Litvinov and Kaganovich are probably executed after a quick show trial by Stalin to seal his alliance with Hitler at the very least and the worst-case scenario for Soviet Jews is that something akin to the planned "Doctor's Plot" purge is carried out to seal the Nazi-Soviet alliance.
 
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