Comments by "" (@ericsaxon5736) on "Epimetheus" channel.

  1. China refused to allow English goods to be sold in China. The English sold opium to 3rd parties, who then sold opium to Chinese merchants. Attacking an RN ship was China's mistake. There was no evil empire scheme, the Chinese caused it themselves.
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  2. No, England did not launch an attack on China. China launched an attack on England and seized English ships which were not carrying Opium. Attacking Opium smugglers is one thing but those were mostly SE Asian Junks, who were in business of smuggling, from India to China, pirates, smugglers, etc... So in the case you mentioned it would look something like this: After the Americans set an bill to prohibit the drug trade with NK, the Anerican government launched a nuclear bomb to NK and say it's all your fault? And you are correct, that would be shameless logic.
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  3. Except the British East India Company wasn't the drug dealer, or even the drug trafficker. The British East India Company was the Colombian Cartel, who manufactured it and sold it to the traffickers, who sold it to dealers. They didn't come to your house and force you to use their product. And how were the Cartels ultimately shut down to a manageable level, the US had to allow Columbia to sell other products like coffee and tropical fruit, so that Colombia's agrarian population wouldn't be forced into producing Cocaine. The same problem exists right now in Afghanistan they're producing heroin because they're unable to sell other products across their border. If their neighbors weren't such assholes and allowed them to export wool, cotton and spices, I can almost guarantee that the Opium production would disappear in a few years. BTW, China will soon have another Opium epidemic if it doesn't start helping to stabilize Afghanistan. Having stable trading partners is a win win for everyone. Don't believe it. Thisis why the US allowed China to trade with the US for the last 70 years, even though China was Communist. Because we understood that a prosperous China, is a stable China, and a stable China isn't exporting the Tongs and refugees.
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  4. I couldn't tell you jack about the British conscience, I'm not English, British, nor am I descended from one of them, I'm an American and German-Polish by descent, I simply informed you of the stark realities of history. I certainly did not absolve them of their guilt or responsibility of protecting and profiting from the Drug Cartels of the 1700s. If you don't listen and draw conclusions that fit your point of view, you're an idiot with a closed mind who doesn't listen and just regurgitates the propaganda he's been spoon fed since childhood. I simply said that it took two to tango in that dance. And China is partially to blame for the Opium Wars. It was China's greed that escalated the problem and forced the EIC to use desperate measures. As for Afghanistan, when you profit by selling guns to the Drug Warlords, you are part of the problem. China doesn't have to be the solution but it shouldn't add to the problem either. The US is certainly no one's Messiah, had it been the choice of most people in the US after 9/11 a Nuclear Explosion would have wiped out several million people in Kabul on 9/12 be glad that our leaders showed restraint and only invaded, had it been Russia or China, Kabul would now be a mass grave. A piece of advice for the future, if you do not like hearing the TRUTH, do not ASK.
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