| The USA didn't have much of a military in 1939. Regardless of the damage Stalin Purge did to his military, the USA did not have a big enough military handle invading the USSR. The USSR probably didn't have a strong enough navy to decently support an invasion across the Bering Strait. The two countries would have had an awful time ever managing to pursue such a war.
I'm not quite clear on why anybody mentioned moving the Pacific Fleet through the Panama Canal. The Pacific Fleet was located in the right ocean and wouldn't require being moved anywhere at all. The Atlantic Ocean would not have been an option -- the UK would have stopped all hostilities via the Atlantic in pretty short order, mostly to ensure their own national security. The Royal Navy was too strong for either the USA or the USSR to try forcing the issue, not to mention all the other obstacles in the way.
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