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Originally Posted by fchase8
Could the Japanese effectively offer the Americans their islands as a base from which to attack Pacific Russia? The actual offer wouldn't be much different from what was agreed IRL, to keep the Emperor, maybe not arrest as many wartime leaders, maybe even ask to keep their armed forces - to use against the USSR.
Officially, it would still be "unconditional surrender" to Allied audiences, but privately the Americans wouldn't totally disarm Japan.
This could bring about a second front against the Soviets, American forces that were gearing up to invade Tokyo instead moving on Vladivostok, fighting Korean & Chinese communists.
USSR making it all the way to Gibraltar, through Poland, Germany, France, and Spain seems a stretch - but maybe they had domestic help? There were a lot of French communists who said they'd welcome the Red Army, and the Catalans at least would welcome liberation by their old Russian allies.
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The troops that were used to attack Japan are being used by the Soviets to invade Western Europe.
The Americans bottle-up the Home-Islands (what happens with the Japanese can wait for later and can be decided by the GM). The Americans warn the Japanese forces in Manchukuo to stay out of the way and head for Vladivostok. Manchukuo makes a better base of operations than the Home-Islands.