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>They tried twice beforehand, at Primorie and Mongolia, and both times had their asses handed to them. Japs are terrible at land warfare. Perhaps the IJN is cool, the Imperial Army was shit.
The Japanese would still be able to force the Siberian troops to the east, thus not letting the Germans get pushed back west initially, which would be the objective here.
>Nappy took Moscow, didn't change anything. Again, Russia doesn't end at Moscow. There are tens of millions of people on the Volga, Kazan oil fields were already being exploited and Samara prepped to be temporary capital. If the worst comes to pass, there are Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Omsk east of the Urals. Russia is impossible to occupy, it's a fact.
Napoleon's invasion of Russia lasted literally only around 5 months, and was forced out after the winter, something that Hitler's troops survived even without proper winter clothing.
And again, as I said, the USSR was doing very bad internally, it was industrialising, but it wasn't producing enough stuff (while Germany was), and was living off lend-lease until 1943. Without the British lend-lease and with more German allocation (as well as no bombing on Germany), the Wehrmacht would prove a much better match against the Red Army, especially the first couple of years.
What I'm saying here is that they could possibly have the Red Army collapse just like what happened to the Whites after WWI.