So an interesting thing happened after I was so focused on my Japanese game along these lines:
Go democratic
Release Korea, Formasa
Help China be free (That was helped with AoG/Germany annexing Qing Empire)
Defeat Germany in Asia via events and manual DoW since chain was broken
Release Republic of China and allow total freedom
My plan was to then invade America First Union since they're Paternal Autocrat "Evil to Japan", then suddenly, AUS joined MittelEuropa and fight with Germany. Meanwhile, Russian went Syndicalist after going the Senate route and joined the Internationale, so Germany had to fight on two fronts. Here are the results.
America was too late.
Now, Europe is lost, I could declare war on Australasia since, at this time, is with the Internationale, free colony--- ally. Its really a strange world, but a fun one! I had to rearrange my entire war effort, sure I'm cheating but I'm "roleplaying".
EDIT: Oh and White Ruthenia defeated Poland when Poland declared war on them... while White Ruthenia was allied to Russia. SMART.