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From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Axis_talks

"In October 1940, Stalin requested that Molotov be permitted to discuss with Hitler the countries' future relations.[46] Ribbentrop responded to Stalin in a letter that "in the opinion of the Führer... it appears to be the historical mission of the Four Powers--the Soviet Union, Italy, Japan and Germany -- to adopt a long range-policy and to direct the future development of their peoples into the right channels by delimitation of their interests in a worldwide scale."[47]
The delivery of Ribbentrop's letter was delayed to Stalin, resulting after earlier press stories in the ideas no longer seeming "fresh", causing Ribbentrop to lash out at the German Moscow embassy personnel.[46][48] When delivering the letter, von Schulenberg stated that the Berlin conference would be a preliminary meeting preceding a convening of the four powers.[48]
Stalin was visibly pleased by the invitation for talks in Berlin.[49] Stalin wrote a letter responding to Ribbentrop about entering an agreement regarding a "permanent basis" for their "mutual interests."[50]
On November 6, Köstring wrote that "since Göring has now put our military deliveries in balance with the Russian deliveries, one may hope that the negotiations will end in peace and friendship."[41] During the first two weeks in November, German and Soviet economic negotiators in Moscow enjoyed moderate success.[51] German military economic negotiators had hoped for success in the negotiations, in part, because they felt this would strengthen their arguments against Hitler's then increasingly anti-Soviet policy.[52]
On November 1, Army General Staff head Franz Halder met with Hitler and wrote, "The Führer hopes he can bring Russia into the anti-British front."[53] After Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidential election four days later after promising there would be no foreign wars were he elected, Goebbels noted "after his statement, Roosevelt will hardly be able to enter the war in an active capacity."[53] Meeting with Benito Mussolini, Ribbentrop explained the German view of the meetings, that the acid test would be the Soviets' stand on the Balkans.[43] With the Balkans and the Bosporus a potential "dangerous overlapping of interests", if the Soviets backed away from it, it would be a peaceful and even preferable alternative to an invasion."


What if Hitler accepted Stalin's proposal and allowed the USSR to join the Axis and join the fight against the British and possibly the US

I'm not asking if it was plausible that Hitler would accept Stalin's offer, I'm asking what the results would be and what the war would look like from that point on.

Would Britain and the US be able and willing to fight against Germany, Italy, Japan, AND the USSR all at once?

I personally believe that the combined force of the Axis would be too much for either Britain or America to wage war against and plausibly defeat.
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