What if the Japanese established a White Russian state in Manchuria during the Russian Civil War and/or as apart of some kind of Far Eastern buffer state formed from territories annexed from Eastern Siberia?
Let's say that Tokyo sees that the White Russians are going to lose against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War, occupying Russian Manchuria with some of the men that were sent to intervene in Siberia OTL and convincing the White Russian leadership and forces in the Far East to move to Manchuria. The Reds win the RCW similarly to OTL as the White Russians, backed by Japan and maybe the West, consolidate in White Russian Manchuria. In the post-ww1 years, White Russian Manchuria becomes a de-facto protectorate of Japan who supplies the White Russians with financial and material support as a buffer to the newly-established Soviet Union and expansion of communism in eastern Asia.
What happens next?
Let's say that Tokyo sees that the White Russians are going to lose against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War, occupying Russian Manchuria with some of the men that were sent to intervene in Siberia OTL and convincing the White Russian leadership and forces in the Far East to move to Manchuria. The Reds win the RCW similarly to OTL as the White Russians, backed by Japan and maybe the West, consolidate in White Russian Manchuria. In the post-ww1 years, White Russian Manchuria becomes a de-facto protectorate of Japan who supplies the White Russians with financial and material support as a buffer to the newly-established Soviet Union and expansion of communism in eastern Asia.
What happens next?
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