That's a good point. The Americans and British were in a war to defeat Germany. The Russians were in a war of imperial expansion, once the first threat to the rodina was beaten off.
The Pacific was almost a private war between Japan and the United States.
I don’t know about that. The Burma campaign was all about England versus Japan.
The pacific was only a private war because France and Holland had been taken out by Germany. Most of the places Japan invaded were theirs. Had they still been in the war as more than a guest of England the flavor would have been slightly different. AS it is, Australia and England were very involved.
“So, even if Germany had not attacked Russia, the Russians would have moved against them eventually.”
It’s an interesting subject to discuss. The Russians were very impressed with the ease that the Germans defeated France. From everything I’ve studied about WWII, I doubt Stalin wanted to attack the Germans. He knew full well the power of the Wehrmacht. The Allies would never have been able to overthrow the 3rd Reich without the Russians, at least not until we eventually got the bomb. Even then, it would have been an unimaginable blood bath.