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.

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    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.

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        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.

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          Don’t worry, China will invade us after our boxer rebellion and force us into trade agreements.

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            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.

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                I don’t think every single person got the reference but that aside I don’t think it was a “shit” comment either. The opium war and the boxer protocols are very much in the minds of the Chinese communist leadership, which could be just Xi Jinping nowadays. Xi has referred to them as an “intense humiliation for the country” and a “great pain for its people”. These cultural memories are, in my opinion, definitely playing a part in china’s policies when it comes to fentanyl. And that’s how I interpreted that comment. Perhaps it could have been started less crassly but the core point that in the past the shoe was on the other foot is completely valid.

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                  It’s not really valid to speak of shoes and feet unless the US were the ones subjecting China to the opium, which isn’t true and this whole thread conveniently glossed over.

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        The existence of ultra-nationalists IS them destabilizing us. You think the racist idiots just organized themselves without prompting or funding?

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    Bruh we know China allows it to be gray area. They’ll just spin up new companies and change ports.

    But let’s just pretend crackdowns will fix it when the cartels are literally synthesizing their own now with precursors in their own pro clandestine super labs.

    Why not just setup a federal emergency and supplement recovery/therapy/substitution/housing/safe sites/job training+guidance and actually address the root of the problem? It’s the inside of people where the real addiction to escaping their trauma lies.

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    Hahahaha!

    Soft targets. Mostly meaningless.

    Take on the cartels, stop them invading the United States with their enslaved and indentured illegals carrying the lion’s share of drugs.

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          “Funding Ukraine to beat russia’s ass into the stone age without the loss of a single us soldiers life is a WASTE OF MONEY and should be stopped immediately”

          Also “the US should personally invade one of our largest trading partners and neighbors to chase down cartels in the desert and murder them all until there’s nothing left. Cause history has shown how effective that is”…

          You’re an idiot.