be Jacob Schiff
Wall Street banker, head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Russian pogroms got me pissed
Tzar's regime oppressing Jews hard
early 1900s, war pops off between Russia and Japan
sees opportunity
”I gotchu, Nippon”
ships over $200 million in loans to Imperial Japan
lets them buy warships, ammo, logistics
Japan BTFOs Russia in 1905
first time an Asian nation beats a European power in modern war
Russia humiliated, internal unrest grows
eventually leads to 1917 Revolution
Shiff later says it was revenge for Kishinev pogrom
funds Japan again during WW1, just cuz he can
literally bankrolled the collapse of Tsarist Russia
nobody teaches this in schools
still not allowed to notice