Interesting period of history leading up to the war in the Pacific of WWII. I’m currently reading Ian W. Toll’s massive trilogy to get up to speed.
A lot of world globes and Atlases were sold during this time period so people could look up were these countries were on the globes and atlases, The second main reason why a lot of globes were sold during this time period was because they started making them differently so they could mass produce them so for that reason the cost came down considerable.
I watched a better documentary earlier this year, went into detail on how Ishawhatever came up with the idea of the false flag to seize Manchuria, but was dead set against the Mukden false flag, warning that it would start a war of attrition with China that Japan couldn't win.
By the time of Mukden, Mao had vanished with his fellow thugs, into the interior, on the Long March, and Chiang Kai-shek could turn his entire attention to the Japanese threat.
That war, and Tojo's rise led to Ishiwara's retiring to the country as Tojo rose precipitously to defacto supreme power. Tojo's next bright idea was to commit what is IMHO the biggest military blunder of all time, attacking the US -- didn't make sense then, doesn't now, and can't be made to make sense.
Whoops, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident started the war with China, Mukden led to the Manchukuo puppet state. [blush]
This is basically what I equate Russia and Ukraine to.
It will end up putting a lot of wheels in motion that may have disastrous consequences 10 years down the road.