Originally posted by Bigfella
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27,880 casualties
208 aircraft
253 tanks destroyed
133 armored cars destroyed
as opposed to Japanese losses of
17,000–20,000 casualties
162 aircraft
42 tanks destroyed or crippled
Many tankettes destroyed
72 artillery pieces
Flash forward to 1941 or 1942. Russia has a new generation of aircraft and tanks, better artillery and extensive combat experience in Finland. Japanese aircraft will have improved, but their tanks are still inferior to what Russia had in 1939, let alone T-34s & KV-1s. And Japanese strength is spread all over Asia & the Pacific. Russia will be able to hold its own in the air at the very least, and on the ground it will cut through the Japanese like a hot knife through butter.
Worse, Russia will be taking some of the areas Japan relies on to supply the war - important industrialized areas in Manchuria. Japan will lose an entire army trying to hold Manchuria & eventually sue for peace before Russia takes the Korean peninsular & tears out the rest of the heart of its empire
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