#opiumwars — Public Fediverse posts
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OPIDIGON Pharmaceutical Origin Opium Wars
Opium Wars (1839–1860) Britain vs China, reshaped global trade. The Opium Wars (simplified Chinese: 鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Yāpiàn zhànzhēng) were two conflicts waged between the Qing dynasty and the Western powers during the mid-19th century. The First Opium War was fought from 1839 to 1842 between China and the British Empire. It was triggered by the Qing government's campaign to enforce its prohibition of opium, which included […]https://opidigon.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/opidigon-pharmaceutical-origin-opium-wars/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/116510548525370401
Is this what happens generations after your country sponsored the world's first #narcotics #traffickers on a global scale?🤔 #opiumwars
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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The UK Foreign Office's former Chief mouser #Palmerston has died in Bermuda, where he moved in 2020 after retiting as #diplocat. 😞
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/14/cat-chief-mouser-uk-foreign-office-dies-bermuda-palmerstonOutranked by the great Larry the #Number10Cat, prolific tweeter Palmerston was a disreputable cat, named after the infamous Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. The original Palmerston is best known in Ireland as a cruel landlord in famine-ravaged #Sligo, and globally for starting the appalling #OpiumWars in China.
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The #opiumWars* are a precursor to the #oilWars ... It's not because we're running out of energy or because anyone has democracy problems or anything else, it is because the rich people want to keep on selling oil and the world doesn't want it anymore
*England literally attacked China in order to force the trade of opium
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@Geri
Seems the shock of the ten or thirty or sixty deaths of Palestinian children, women, old people and innocent people every day from Israel's genocide in Gaza is meant to count for nothing according to the cops and British government.Starmer's gov is complicit in mass murder. Let's call that out as not "modern British".
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@paleofuture.bsky.social The utopian lies of #Broligarchs and #Techbros are being used by #fascists like opium was used during the #OpiumWars.
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Gardeners warned to be prepared over popular plant used to make drugs https://www.allforgardening.com/1324372/gardeners-warned-to-be-prepared-over-popular-plant-used-to-make-drugs/ #DiarmuidGavin #flowers #garden #gardener #gardening #OpiumWars #plantlife #poppies... #SundayMirror #WorldWarI
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No it won’t. It an additional stain on Europe’s already bloodstained history.
#colonialism #genocide #slavery #OpiumWars #holocaust #famine #capitalism
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#China is flooding Mexican cartels with precursor materials as payback for the #OpiumWars.
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A DEA agent was quoted in a @ProPublica piece on #fentanyl saying that the amount of precursor materials being shipped out of China was so large, that it was impossible for the Chinese state to not be aware.
They were allowing it to happen as a dish served cold for the #OpiumWars.
Payback is a bitch.
They played the long game.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/114062069561880136 -
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the hunting for sport of humans by colonialist in parts of Sth America through to the 1970s, the #OpiumWars, the #Holodomor, the #ArmeniaGenocide the British caused famine around (?) Dehli, the grossly negligent prep for Indian independence, slavery in the Americas and the oppression of #NativeAmericans, #Maori and #Aboriginals in still-colonised lands, I was surprised.
But didn't do the work.
A right proper #Consumer.
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Two years ago, @ProPublica published a report quoting an anonymous DEA agent saying that sheer amount of precursor materials being shipped from China to Mexico meant it was impossible that their government was unaware of the industrial transfer of goods.
They hypothesized it was payback for the #OpiumWars, and strategically intended to destabilize #American society from within.
China has a much longer memory, and the U.S. can only measure in quarterly returns.
#history
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DC0DjKoM3DF -
Russia is trafficking in #HumanOpioid, borrowing from China’s strategy of supplying precursors to #fentanyl as payback for destabilization of the #OpiumWars.
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@chpietsch Auch werden die #OpiumWars gerne vergessen. Europäer haben so manches Handelshemmnis weggebombt, wenn sie überlegen waren.
Totale Überraschung, dass es unschön ist, zur Abwechslung mal am anderen Ende davon zu sitzen.
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#BooksThatInfluencedYou
Day 13:Today, I'm recommending another book by #JamesClavel, #TaiPan.
It is the second book in #Clavel's fantastic #AsianSaga.It describes the rivalry of two English merchant families + their rise 2 power against the well-researched background of the #OpiumWars + #Hongkong's early colonial history.
It 1st got me interested in 🇨🇳.@mina @Yorkshiregeek @evelynefoerster @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @MaJ1 @mattotcha @2ndStar @energiepirat @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @GreenFire
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But it’s Ghosh’s big-picture thinking that has made his nonfiction so influential. The West didn’t invent the opium trade, he writes. Instead — as with the Atlantic coast traffic in human beings — it took a pre-existing practice and expanded it exponentially to perfect “the model of the colonial narco-state.”
#History #BookReview #India #China #BritishEmpire #EastIndies #OpiumWars
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“Chinese authorities have decided as a matter of policy to foster the drug trade in the Americas in order to destabilize the region and spread corruption, addiction and death here.”
Payback for the #OpiumWars?
https://www.propublica.org/article/china-cartels-xizhi-li-money-laundering
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We should never let #China forget that #Russia stole #OuterMongolia from them in an #unequalTreaty during the #opiumWars.
#Vladivostok is occupied just like #Crimea
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Generational-Teaching-Shock. I played Marcy Playground's "Poppies" to talk about the #OpiumWars (I had wanted to do this two weeks ago but had to shift it). The students liked the song, and we had a great discussion on #opium + #imperialism, so the #didactics worked well.
BUT: I have used this song several times, and students never knew it until now. Today *two* told me their parents always had listened to Marcy, so they had heard Poppies before. Feeling VERY old!
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Does anyone actually believe that no #military generals were involved in the wanton ritualistic murder of #Afghan people, a process described as "#blooding".
Will we ever know the full extent of the murderous #cult, given that 9 troops have reportedly committed suicide apparently.
Do we also believe that no #USA generals were involved?
#Afghanistan #warCrimes #NATODisband #opiumWars #concentrationFarms #lithiumWars #Bolivia #invasion #September11 #richMansTrick #refugeeFactory #ausMilitary
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Up to 3000 #Australian #military personel could be stripped of ill-gotten accolades, based on revelations in Thurdays, #Afghan #warCrimes report.
#afghanistan #opiumWars #lithiumWars #smartDevices #batteries #brutalFascists #secretSocieties #cult #occult