Sunday, December 1, 2024

Fentanyl is China's revenge for the Opium Wars

I’m guessing the vast majority of Americans know absolutely fuck-all about the Opium Wars. Those wars were imposed on China to force her to permit Chinese citizens access to British opium. Yes, the British Empire ran the global opium empire at the time. China lost those wars, leading to another historical marker 99% of Americans are ignorant of; the century of humiliation. I love a plausible conspiracy theory, and when Donny J fingered China for the fentanyl flood the other day, I thought, holy moly, we got us a good one here! Once, we held the whip, and we humiliated China for 100 years. Apparently, at least according to Trump, it’s China that holds the whip today… I figure we’re in for about another 90 years of humiliation.

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