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I think the logistics would have been more difficult for the Russians. American supply lines in Europe were solid. After the Nazis folded, that place was so flooded with fresh troops and equipment that their ability to push east would have probably been pretty easy. At this point, we owned the German airports, so we wouldn't have been relying on staging troops in England like we had before, and the Atlantic would have been totally uncontested. That's big.The pacific fleet would had been completely bogged down in the East and so would be Westeners in Russia.
Logistics would had been hell, so the only tie breaker would had been the A-bomb, which is actually something pretty scary.
On the eastern front, there would have been fighting over the Pacific, but only some. I think you would have seen a lot of troops pushing up through China, collapsing the Russians' ability to access the ocean. Once you control the eastern seaboard, you've essentially closed off the Soviets from accessing materials not already inside the country. You can either use the bomb or fight a war of attrition, but I think the result is the same.