Well, their demise is probably really the fault of their AI, I've seen entire Soviet tank divisions being deployed to Burma while Moscow was already under the siege.
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While the heavy battles continue to rage in continental Asia, Soviet forces in Europe have started running out of breathe. Moscow is now just an isolated pocket of resistance, located far behind the enemy lines.
In spite of the forces of ''Mitteleuropa'' already racing trough the Urals, Soviet troops that were attached to allied forces in East Asia had no other choice but to stick with their comrades and hold their ground against the attacking EAA units.
Ryukyu Republic has finally surrendered, with area being put under joint occupation of general East Asian Army troops and the security forces of EAA's Army of Japan.
PLA forces in Manchuria continue to hold their positions, prompting EAA supreme command to dispatch more even reinforcements and distinguished commanders to prop up the exhausted troops in this area.
The near collapse of Himalayan front does not help the general military effort of the East Asian Empire. Troops of socialist India and their Syndicalist allies storm the EAA positions with unprecedented brutality, forcing Sino-German units to abandon their fortified posts.
However, the advance of Indian forces is soon halted by the heavy airstrikes that are carried out by elite air support forces of the EAA's Army of Japan.
The mass of Sino-Soviet armor is engulfed by the sea of fire at Xilinhot thanks to superiority of EAA Panzerwaffe. PLA and Red Army suffer significant loses both on the battlefield and during the hasty retreat. EAA's mobile artillery corps continued to pound enemy positions without mercy even during the harsh pursuit of retreating hostile troops.
Indian counter-offensive in Burma failes as well thanks to joint effort of EAA and allied Malay forces. The latter are ironically fighting under combined operational command headed by Thai General Chan-o-cha, the feared ''Tiger of Malaya'' who was overseeing the siege of Singapore. Fortunately, this fact does not seem to have demoralizing effect on Malay forces that are even made of many veterans of past wars. The mix of respect for former foe and admiration of capable present ally does actually seem to have a positive overall effect for general combat morale.
EAA Panzertruppen are now finally attempting to push into Manchuria for good. The exhaustion seems to be taking a heavy toil on enemy forces, but PLA and their Syndicalist allies are still not to be underestimated. Advance into enemy heartlands is coming with visible increase in the strength of enemy numbers. However, swiftly mobilized enemy troops are a mixed bag of experienced veterans returning from short vacation and a mass of greenhorns what might either prove as either mostly pathetic or very dangerous combination.
The Indian advance into Tibet is finally halted and EAA forces being to counter-attack. Elite rangers of Guards Corps are spearheading the counter-offensive in harsh mountainous terrain.
EAA in the South is now confident enough to enter the next phase of operations. The new plan is centered on a goal of cutting Burma from Indian influence once and for all.
Situation in Africa is not looking too good as the Central African Empire is begining to lose the hope of ever getting back the access to East Africa again.
Situation is much less grim in Europe where the German Heer and allied armies are swiftly advancing deeper and deeper into Eurasia, leaving only encircled fortified pockets of Soviet resistance like Moscow, Peterburg and Volgograd behind to be dealt with later. Forces of Mitteleuropa faction are stretched thin and it would be dangerous to risk valuable manpower and material for risky assaults on besieged major cities. Soviet partisans are also wrecking havoc behind enemy lines, cutting supply lines and harrassing smaller units. forcing Germans to rely on willing local collaborators and 2nd grade allied forces. Due to what they saw as relative cultural similarities, the decision makers in Berlin trusted administration of the large swathes of Southern Russia to Ukrainean military authorities. The state of Ukraine is now a defunct kingdom that used to be ruled by Habsburg king until the governing Hetman established full-fledged personal regime few decades after the Great War. Now, the militarized Cossack-dominated state has provided significant military support during the war against Soviet Republic. This help was not seen only on the frontlines, but also in the rear as mobile Cossack forces proved to be very suitable for anti-partisan duty tasks. Even more, the call of Hetman Kravchuk for general Cossack unity proved to be a relatively successful move in the long turn, resulting in creation of several collaborating Russian Cossack hosts that fell out of favor with the increasingly paranoid Soviet regime which declared many (once loyal) Red Cossacks for defeatists that were not being able to hold their ground in Don and Kuban areas. In return, those new-old warlords that used to fight under the red banner were now keeping order in their pseudo-republics that were put under protection of Ukrainean Hetman that continued to boast about the magnificent Cossack unity that he managed to achieve. However, Berlin was not so euphoric about this cooperation...
Surprisingly, the Soviet military presence in Central Asia was still very strong. Regional commanders were rather defending their posts instead of hurrying back to Moscow as the proximity of friendly India was much better guarantee for safe retreat. This was of course not too pleasant fact for supreme leader of German China as the Heer and its allies were already approaching depths of Siberia while East Asian Empire has not even liberated the Manchuria yet. Teufel's megalomanic dreams where he waltzed into the Europe with his Asian armies as the mighty savior of German civilization were thus already shattered. Either the North Americans press for the rotten compromise or the Germans reach the boundaries of his empire, it was not good outcome for him. He wasn't even sure what was the lesser evil between these two scenarios. Allow North Americans to settle in the middle of Eurasian heartlands or lose his face and appear as weakling German puppet that has allowed his masters to save him from certain doom by conquering everything between the Ukraine and China?
