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We used to sell opium to China, now they sell us Fentanyl. This is a pretty sloppy use of "we". The United Kingdom is a separate country on a different contin
by WillPostForFood 3y ago
We used to sell opium to China, now they sell us Fentanyl.
This is a pretty sloppy use of "we". The United Kingdom is a separate country on a different continent with a seperate history of wrongdoing. It is like justifying a trade war with China on Pearl Harbor.
- eunos 3y agoBoston Brahmin including Delano Family (FDR ancestor) were involved as well.
- kelipso 3y agoLike Anglo countries don't have extremely close ties and similar governments and ideologies that they might as well be a single country.
- p3rls 3y agoThis is why I always tell people the confederacy actually abolished slavery in 1833.
- kelipso 3y agoRight, cus the south is still an independent country
- selimthegrim 3y agoAnybody who has some doubts about this should look up what the east India company flag looked like
- WillPostForFood 3y agoSure, just like the Malaysian flag shows the deep rooted ties to the United States...
- jazzyjackson 3y ago"In the early 1800s, the Brits controlled 90 percent of the Chinese opium trade. But within the 10 percent of business handled by Americans, Perkins and his brother James had the largest share. They owned at least seven ships, and held interest in others. The ships sailed from Massachusetts shores to Turkey, where they bought opium; from Turkey to China, where they sold the drug; and from China to Boston, loaded with tea, porcelain and silk." https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/07/31/opium-boston-history https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/07/31/opium-boston-history
- WillPostForFood 3y agoThe British government started a war to force trade fought for three years, and enforced it militarily. It is not an interesting equivalent to point to minor, private, third party, unrelated to the government, that engaged in trade after the war, and use that to assign blame to a different country.