Nod, though as per telemann's question I was talking outside of the alternate history.
In real history, Stalin had agreed (at Yalta, I presume) to attack the Japanese 3 months after victory over Germany.
And I believe they did so, to the day.
But (getting back into the Alternate history) I think Soviet interests would have been predominantly on the mainland, shoring up their client state of Mongolia and solidifying interests in Manchuria. The bulk of the Japanese Army was still on Asian Mainland, so there would have been plenty for them to do, and I think that the U.S. would have been mostly satisfied to let them do so.
I think Trueman's view of the Soviets was very different from Roosevelt's, and I think he was swayed by Churchill's criticisms of Stalin in ways Roosevelt was not. Even with a massive butcher bill to be paid on the Japanese home islands, I don't think the American leadership of the time would have acquiesced to a split North and South Japan.
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Date: 1/12/10 22:00 (UTC)In real history, Stalin had agreed (at Yalta, I presume) to attack the Japanese 3 months after victory over Germany.
And I believe they did so, to the day.
But (getting back into the Alternate history) I think Soviet interests would have been predominantly on the mainland, shoring up their client state of Mongolia and solidifying interests in Manchuria. The bulk of the Japanese Army was still on Asian Mainland, so there would have been plenty for them to do, and I think that the U.S. would have been mostly satisfied to let them do so.
I think Trueman's view of the Soviets was very different from Roosevelt's, and I think he was swayed by Churchill's criticisms of Stalin in ways Roosevelt was not. Even with a massive butcher bill to be paid on the Japanese home islands, I don't think the American leadership of the time would have acquiesced to a split North and South Japan.