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What I mean is that for one the Empire and the Allies have literally all their mobile or deployable forces available at the moment in Austria/Eastern Europe or in readiness positions in Italy and North Africa, and for the moment these are all that there is in way of a Strategic reserve and until the Co-Prosperity Sphere is defeated that won't change as that front is bound to tie up at least 80% of Indian manpower, especially once the front widens when the Allies push into Siam and French Indochina.
Overall this means that barring a massive military catastrophe of some sort the Germans and the Soviets have the ability of tying up the Allies in Europe for years.
That sounds like, other than possibly India, the empire and allies are pretty much at the end of their manpower reserves. I.e. can [probably easily] replace material losses but not much more human casualties.
While their capacity isn't as large as the US one was in WW2 in the end superior British manufacturing will crush the Germans and ironically the Japanese are at the same time fighting the Allies in Asia and supporting them in Europe by way of tying up two thirds of the Red Army and making a good fight of it.
This sounds like things would be a lot nastier if Stalin hadn't been such a burke.
In the end though, all this is written from an in-universe perspective. I know of course when the war ends and what cities beginning with B fall at what time to what units, and you must remember that in this war the proverbial can of Instant Sunshine is used twice, and both times in the ETO.
We're going to lose Birmingham and Bristol!
So there's going to be two nukes used, in the European theatre. Interesting and worrying. I suspect by that time it will be somewhere very much in eastern Europe but see how things develop.
Steve