User blog comment:DjuNgleB/Something I never knew about Australia/@comment-1940967-20100506182035

no offence dj but i doubt it would have changed the war. if the US couldn't continue to island hopping campaign and Britian couldn't continue attacking through burma and defending india then Russia would have gone in to japan's mainland whilst an inevitable attack through the south from the western allies would have crippled the japanese. this was all agreed before the war ended. however this could have changed the tide of the cold war because no doubt stalin would have continued his socialist empire into asia which would have given Russia a massive influence in asia which could have caused a much different tide in the cold war.