Senator Ryan,
I wouldn't worry about Stalin declaring war on you. While Stalin might be a dictator, he's definitely not stupid. Stalin knows, that he couldn't win a war against the allies right now (his Red Navy consisted sole of ships he inherited from the Tsar prewar, and I doubt he built anything except submarines since then - he maybe lost one ship or the other to Germany, I don't know exactly). He might 'spread the world revolution' as he calls it to continental Europe, but he'll look into recent history, and see: hell there's one guy who tried that (Hitler) and he failed by all means, so better wait till we could win the war, or don't even start one if we couldn't.
Note, that I've met Mr. Stalin. While I not agree with his ideological views, I must say, that he's a intelligent man. Hitler is crazy and ill, but Stalin thinks rational, that's why the British couldn't make an alliance with the soviets before WW2: The British offered him nearly nothing for participating in this war (even the part, Poland conquered from them in 1920 should remain Polish), so Stalin simply didn't see the reason for that war. Germans, however offered Stalin former soviet territory in Poland along with the Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, while promising to be peaceful to each other. That Hitler would break this pact only two years later, nobody imagined at that time (remember senators, we haven't done anything about German aggression for a long time also).
((To the matter of supply: if your troops are supplied by allied territory, there are invisible convoys delivering the amount of supplies and fuel your guys consume. However, if the country we're talking about has general fuel/supply problems, you'll be soon oos too.))
Lieutenant-General Joseph Warren Stilwell
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Theater
I wouldn't worry about Stalin declaring war on you. While Stalin might be a dictator, he's definitely not stupid. Stalin knows, that he couldn't win a war against the allies right now (his Red Navy consisted sole of ships he inherited from the Tsar prewar, and I doubt he built anything except submarines since then - he maybe lost one ship or the other to Germany, I don't know exactly). He might 'spread the world revolution' as he calls it to continental Europe, but he'll look into recent history, and see: hell there's one guy who tried that (Hitler) and he failed by all means, so better wait till we could win the war, or don't even start one if we couldn't.
Note, that I've met Mr. Stalin. While I not agree with his ideological views, I must say, that he's a intelligent man. Hitler is crazy and ill, but Stalin thinks rational, that's why the British couldn't make an alliance with the soviets before WW2: The British offered him nearly nothing for participating in this war (even the part, Poland conquered from them in 1920 should remain Polish), so Stalin simply didn't see the reason for that war. Germans, however offered Stalin former soviet territory in Poland along with the Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, while promising to be peaceful to each other. That Hitler would break this pact only two years later, nobody imagined at that time (remember senators, we haven't done anything about German aggression for a long time also).
((To the matter of supply: if your troops are supplied by allied territory, there are invisible convoys delivering the amount of supplies and fuel your guys consume. However, if the country we're talking about has general fuel/supply problems, you'll be soon oos too.))
Lieutenant-General Joseph Warren Stilwell
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Theater