Mastodawn

One does not need to feel any enthusiasm for the current regime in #venezuela to call out what appears to be a remarkably anachronistic revival of something known as 'booty imperialism'. #bootyimperialism is a term I encountered when reading 'Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy' by #josephschumpeter many years ago. He applied it to #soviet policy in #manchuria and elsewhere in the late 1940s. Seizing foreign oilfields would fit this description.

Angela Glansbury 🚽Dec 21

surprised and pleased to see copies of some of Lao She's in my local library. anyone in here read him? if so what do you think?

#Books #Reading #China #Manchuria #Beijing

KeuLiqhięn̥Oct 29

#满洲 #Manchuria #滿洲
汉字是满人先祖所创
殷商是满洲游牧民族
汉字就是满洲文化

深入学习贯彻满洲史观！

KeuLiqhięn̥Oct 28

#满洲 #Manchuria #滿洲

勾践就是女真南下地殖民者，其名“勾践”读音是“juzi”，就是今天吴语读“诸暨”，那是“女直”地原始读音。浙江地名“诸暨”就是“女直”之谐音

😅但凡对语言学有一丁点了解，就讲不出来这种空话

Justin Hebert

Oct 16

The Great Withdrawal
Following its investigation into the Mukden Incident and subsequent Japanese occupation of northeast China, the League of Nations demands that Japan withdraw its troops and return the territory they've seized. Japan responds by withdrawing from the League of Nations.
https://ahistoryofjapan.com/2025/10/16/the-great-withdrawal/
#EarlyShowa #Season15 #China #History #Japan #LeagueOfNations #Manchukuo #Manchuria #MukdenIncident #Showa #Withdrawal

Justin Hebert

Oct 9

The Making of Manchukuo
Three years after the assassination of Zhang Zuolin and attempted framing of the KMT, a group of higher-ranking officers within the Kwantung Army staged another false flag attack, which resulted in their conquest of northeast China and the establishment of the p
https://ahistoryofjapan.com/2025/10/09/the-making-of-manchukuo/
#EarlyShowa #Season15 #China #History #Incident #Invasion #Japan #LeagueOfNations #Manchukuo #Manchuria #Mukden #PuppetState #Shenyang #Showa

Justin Hebert

Oct 6

The Frame-up
In 1928, a group of officers in the Kwantung Army attempted to frame the KMT for their own assassination of Zhang Zuolin. The failed attempts to enforce accountability and discipline which followed set the stage for similar incidents in the future.
https://ahistoryofjapan.com/2025/10/06/the-frame-up/
#EarlyShowa #Season15 #Army #assassination #China #Giichi #History #Japan #Kwantung #Manchuria #Showa #Tanaka #Xueliang #Zhang #Zuolin

The Frame-up - A History of Japan

In 1928, a group of officers in the Kwantung Army attempted to frame the KMT for their own assassination of Zhang Zuolin. The failed attempts to enforce accountability and discipline which followed set the stage for similar incidents in the future.

A History of Japan - Podcast

Wittgenstein's Monster Sep 18

📅 This Day in History – Sept 18, 1931
Japan staged the Mukden Incident, blowing up their own railway and blaming China—launching the invasion of Manchuria.

False flags like Mukden aren’t rare.
They’re routine.

Ems Dispatch. Reichstag Fire. Gleiwitz. Winter War. Northwoods. Lavon Affair. Tonkin. Iraq. Again and again.

So I wrote a poem.

https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/the-spark-that-wasnt

#ThisDayInHistory #FalseFlag #MukdenIncident #Poetry #Geopolitics #Empire #Manchuria #Japan #History #Authoritarianism #Substack

🚨 The Spark That Wasn’t

On Mukden, and the many flames that were fed by lies.

Eshu’s Substack

Haciendo Historia Sep 17

¡ESTRENO!
Hace poco se celebró el 80 aniversario de la rendición de Japón. No olvidemos que los rojos invadieron Manchuria para acelerar este proceso de capitulación

https://zurl.co/z7LDT

#manchuria #urss #japon #ww2

The Japan Times Aug 21

For Hiroyoshi Takizawa, life in Manchuria was comfortable for a while. But when the Soviet's invaded, his father, fearing the worst, chose mass suicide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/japan-wwii-manchuria-pioneers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #manchuria #china #russia

A life upended by Japan's wartime policy of mass suicide

Hiroyoshi Takizawa's life in Manchuria was comfortable at first. But when the Soviet Union invaded, his father, fearing the worst, chose mass suicide.

The Japan Times