See what path they took. Did they take the path to attack China or the Soviets?
How come Japan never joins Axis?
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And that would have made them allies in any other potential wars and all of the sudden we are back to the soviets and Japan being at war which is part of why Japan was moved out of the axis to start with. It would also mean the allies would have to kick the USSR form the allies if they wanted to do Operation unthinkable, which would be sort of a dead give away that they were planning that.
The issue with this is that it would allow the allies to help the Soviets way, WAY more than they ever did or even could. With the Soveits in the Allies, the allies could;
1. Not bother with D-Day and deploy their entire army from the eastern front, crushing the Axis with the combined might of all of their armies.
2. Base their airforce on Soviet land and bomb the german army into oblivion.
3. Call in the Soviets against Japan as soon as Japan attacks the allies, completely derailing the chinese front in the allies favor.
4. Not bother with island hopping and invade Japan through the soviet ports right next to Japan.
That's just off the top of my head. Being in the same faction means complete military cooperation, which the Allies and the Soviets did not have. The Soviets should not join any democratic faction and be the leading Communist nation, and because of this, they have their own faction. The name of it doesn't really matter, Paradox just decided to call it the Comintern.
But the Soviets didn´t join the Allies and I dare say Stalin would never have accepted the role of backseat driver to his arch rival Churchill who he despised.
Maybe in the future we will get a revised Soviet national focus tree with a path for a democratic Russia under Kerensky that will disband the Comintern and join the Allies.
We are talking about Romania and Bulgaria joining with Japan in the Greater-East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere not anything about the Soviets. Please stay on topic!
No we're talking about Japan not joining the axis. As for Europeans joining the Asia co prosperity sphere that will require fixing but while it may happen because Japan is in it's own faction it is not inherent to that solution.
I feel like the simplest fix to this would be to add a -50 or whatever malus for AI's desire to join factions whose leader is on a different continent then them. The US can be worked around via adding something to counterbalance that to their unique "Home of the Free" spirit, but other than that, that would fix mostly everything. A -50 (Or something) would mean that a nation would almost always prefer a faction on their continent over others. This would also make unique factions more worthile because now every fascist in the world won't have a massive penalty to joining you because they'd 'prefer to join the Axis' which is two oceans away and is in the middle of a world war.