Update: ok so I took the advice of regrouping to italy, I didn't have much of a choice though. I got all my divs out of Africa successfully and have around ~6 divs each on each beach in Italy and in the provinces that were partitioned to me after the Yugoslav war event. This is the current situation for the Russian front
They are getting pushed back hard by the Russians, I am building more divisions to send to the Germans. Other than new divs I am trying to build Coastal Fortifications on all my beaches, and build some AA in provinces with high resources and IC (They are bombing my industry bad, now I only have 2 tech teams in action)
I also have 8 divs of naval bombers attacking enemy ships around Italy, and I have every available ship doing naval interdiction in hopes of catching their transports when they come. Here's the Defense of Italy:
And here's the overview of Europe in general
Not looking so good, I'm thinking of just holding the beaches of Italy and additional troops all to the Russian front. I still have about 30 divisions as expeditionary forces, but they need more. Initially I was planning on invading the soviets through the province of Baku after taking Egypt but that's never going to happen. Right now I think the Axis' gambit will be the Japanese for a swift Soviet victory, a few events popped up and the Japanese AI selected that they could beat the soviet army in that one event that I can't remember, and they never signed a non-aggression pact. Here's the situation in Asia, and at least the Japanese are doing really good which is good news for us I think.
It's odd but Vichy France refused to give it's asian region to Japan, so when Germany decided to annex Vichy after the allies invaded Casablanca they also got Vichy's asian provinces.. haha.
It looks like Japan will actually beat N. China, is there anyway to get them to attack the soviets? If they don't I don't think we can hold them off much longer, but I'm going to play this scenario to the bitter end no matter what.
Also I didn't cheat with manpower, after Italy joins the axis you get huge manpower events.
Suggestions?