In one of the biggest actions the administration has taken against fentanyl trafficking, the U.S. on Tuesday announced a series of indictments and sanctions against 14 people and 14 firms across China and Canada related to the import of the drug to the United States.
It is about fucking time the world takes China’s clandestine opium war seriously. The fact they have gotten away with this for so long is mind blowing. This has been a highly destructive and extremely successful campaign to destabilize western society.
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I’m no china apologist, but I honestly hope they destabilize Western society with opiates before we start having internal religious/ultranationalist revolts. It would be a poetic way to have history play out.
I mean, I’m firmly in the camp of trying to avoid christian nationalist / neo-fascist takeover of western society as well mate. Call me pragmatic, but I’m not a romantic when it comes to society potentially devolving into global authoritarianism.
Don’t worry, China will invade us after our boxer rebellion and force us into trade agreements.
If you’re downvoting this: the opium war was a series of conflicts where Britain fought to smuggle opium into China and China trying to stop it. The Boxer rebellion was an anti colonial uprising to kick westerns (British, American, and others) out of China. The Boxer protocols was a heavily imbalanced treaty that heavily destabilized China and in my opinion put conditions in place that made communist China possible.
The existence of ultra-nationalists IS them destabilizing us. You think the racist idiots just organized themselves without prompting or funding?
I think that fascism is a natural reaction to a failing system. One that needs to be stomped out, but one that should be expected. Only truly head in the sand liberals think it’s even majority due to outside forces. That was true in boxer china, the weimar republic, greece, and many many other places. It’s true here and now too.
And why do you think the system is failing now?
The accumulation of capital at the top and rent seeking causing increasing cycles of booms and busts due to speculation while crowding out the ability for the masses to maintain a living standard.
“Chinese buyers spent $13.6 billion on US residential real estate in the year ending March 2023”
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/china-economy-us-housing-market-home-prices-demand-supply-2023-8#:~:text=Chinese buyers spent %2413.6 billion,the housing market in China.
I’m certainly not saying that it’s purely external influence. I’m saying this is a thing they want and are certainly feeding into.
13.6 B in an 80 trillion market is a rounding error.