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The estimates of the number of Americans who would die were an invasion of the Japanese home islands were more than a million. The numbers resulting from an offensive against the Soviets would have dwarfed that, even given the advantage presented by nuclear weapons.

There are more than enough ironies surrounding World War II to go around. If the Japanese had invaded Russia when or shortly after Hitler did, the whole war would have been different. If the Japanese had gone after American shipping destined for Russia before or after Pearl Harbor, some of the offensives launched by Russia would have been delayed.

If the Isolationists (the niave who believed that we could avoid the war, the cynical Nazi/Facist sympathizers of America First and other organizations, traitors like Lindbergh) had not prevented Roosevelt from preparing for the inevitable, the United States might have been an effective player in the war before 1943.