📅 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

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