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So, in your revisionist mindset, the opium wars were just like any other war? The motivation of the opium wars was to fix the British Empire trade deficit by s

So, in your revisionist mindset, the opium wars were just like any other war? The motivation of the opium wars was to fix the British Empire trade deficit by selling opium to China, turning them into drug addicts in the process. When the Chinese started seizing their opium they declared war. It's fucked up to just imagine what kind of morally bankrupt psycho could have thought of that as a solution to an economic problem, and what kind of society it takes to get everyone aligned to execute it.

ljw1001 8y ago
in my revisionist mindset it's a lot like King Leopald in the Congo, the near extermination of native Americans (to get their land), the slave trade, the proxy wars in Asia and Africa to fight (or expand) communism and other horrors.
- partycoder 8y ago
  Fair enough, those are good examples. I take back the ad-hominem. The term to describe what happened in North America is settler colonialism (where settlers seek to replace population with their own rather than assimilating it).