Talk:Thaumaturgy/@comment-5982125-20131121171538/@comment-5982863-20131125085948

[Makes note to self to not become the Russian Chancellor and make strategic mistakes]

Wouldn't the Russians have dealt with any potential problems with the Japanese relatively quickly though? While Japan would be a major power in this universe (I think that I remember you or Ruffles saying something about them controlling more of China than they did historically, which of course would explain their greater rivalry with the Russians in the region) it would seem unlikely that their forces of land would be able to efficiently resist the sheer size of the Imperial Russian Army. Which appears to be at least equivalent to the Soviet Army, and perhaps might have had more institutional experience and a less.... dead upper command level in the 30s and 40s. While of course, they would need to deal with the Western threats from France or the UK, the Japanese would not be overly capable on the land so it would seem they would have been able to present little threat to the Russians in the region, unless if they were a lot stronger than they were historically. Of course, they did defeat in our universe the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War, but on the other hand their experience against the Soviets in the 1930s were.... problematic.

Now that is different of course, as the Japanese are backed up by the Americans, the Russians are engaged in Alaska, the French are still there, etc. etc.

Also I see why the Americans would be building those fleet cruisers for anti-aircraft warfare if torpedo bombers are one of the major arms of the Russian naval offensive arsenal. Taking out those at long range would obviously be a wise thing to do.

Wouldn't the Russians be attempting to do something else too, some other front or area to open up? Given what you've said about the war up to this point in Alaska, while the Russians haven't been defeated, they are steadily, if slowly, losing ground, and so it would seem that they would be trying to make progress somewhere else to offset that.