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I've never heard this Soviet angle, anybody have some info on it? I'd like to read what they had started for preparations for this type of excursion. Because I would've thought the Soviets were not in the position to make an attack elsewhere, as I had always heard they were not anywhere near the strength of the Allies in the West, and had there not been the "mutual tolerance" between the Western Allies and the Soviets, the Western forces could have almost walked into a good portion of the USSR instead of sweeping up into Germany.
Not convinced yet. Japan was different from germany in the fact that it had no real borders with any other country. It's much easier to seal off. If you seal them of from oil, they have no freedom to wage war, because they have no fuel to power the machine. It's the principle of siege in the middle ages which still could be applied.
Merlin is right. You cannot allow the enemy freedom to wage war; it's been one of the most important aspects of war throughout history. Denying the enemy the ability to wage war was the primary reason the Roman Empire grew so large and the reason that Japan would have needed to be invaded.