2nd alternative to WWII? will still outcome to war, remaining unchecked Stalin has plans set in motion?

Huh? It is more likely that without a strong Germany to worry Uncle Joe, Russia and Japan would have gone at it, as the Japanese would have seen Russia, not the U.S., as the main block on thier road to Asian reunification. With no love of Russia, and no direct attack by Japan, the U.S. never would have harned its industrial might to conquor facism, meaning that the victor in the Russia/Japan showdown, Round 2 (Remember the Russo-Japanses War of 1906?) would have been Big Boy on the Block. And the U.S. *still* wouldn't have mobilized, because the U.S. post WWI mobilization plans depended upon mobilization and training happening in FRANCE, and with a free France, the U.S. would have been complacent. And if Russia beat France, by then it would have been too late for the U.S. to do anything, because Uncle Joe, having whacked Japan already, would have no second front to worry about....