sethnintendo on 14 December 2011
| lordmandeep said: Well if the Russians got invaded by the Japanese at the same time as the Nazi's took all of Russia towards the Urals perhaps... I remember reading the Russians had a huge number of forces to counter the Japanese armies in China. If Russian forces all went and attacked the invading Germans from the West, the Germans would have to keep a massive force in Russia. If the Japanese attacked, then the Germans would have been able to win however I doubt the Japanese could have fought against the Chinese, British (Commonwealth), Russians and the US at the same time. |
Yea, the Japanese would have to post pone their attack on the US if they were to help Germany with a pincer attack. I believe this would probably be a better strategy for the Axis. If they were able to knock the Soviet Union out of the war before USA even joined then it would have made things a lot harder. Of course Japan thought they achieved a great victory at Pearl Harbor but since there were no USA carriers lost during Pearl Harbor they really didn't knock the Pacific fleet completely out. Those carriers being safe from the Pearl Harbor attack allowed USA to bounce back quick with a major victory at the Battle of Midway. It seems like the Axis didn't cooperate as effectively as the Allies.
