Here's my map of the world situation in 2040
China has just emerged victorious from the Great Asian War (non nuclear) against an alliance of America, India and Taiwan.
Taiwan has been forcibly reunited with China and India has been broken up along ethnic lines with a rump state of the Hindi...
Perhaps we could see such a war starting with the Soviet Union going to war against UK and France over Poland, Turkey or Finland. Not sure why Germany would be kept out, maybe a civil war or longer economic troubles.
Anyway, with Britain and France fighting the Soviet Union, Japan could...