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
#colonialist 👇
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
#colonialist 👇
"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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-palmerston
Outranked 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.
19th century's strongest drug dealer 💪💪💪💪💪
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1510531/19th-century-s-strongest-drug-dealer
Victoria's Forbidden City
@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".
No it won’t. It an additional stain on Europe’s already bloodstained history.
#colonialism #genocide #slavery #OpiumWars #holocaust #famine #capitalism
Trump's new 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada took effect on Tuesday, along with a doubling of duties on Chinese goods to 20%, launching new trade conflicts with the top three U.S. trading partners. The tariff actions, which could upend nearly $2.2 trillion in two-way annual U.S. trade went live at 12:01 a.m. EST (0501 GMT), hours after Trump declared that all three countries had failed to do enough to stem the flow of the deadly fentanyl opioid and its precursor chemicals into the US https://www.reuters.com/world/trade-wars-erupt-trump-hits-canada-mexico-china-with-steep-tariffs-2025-03-04/
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
Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid is hurting one of his major campaign promises: 👉taking on #fentanyl and ending #overdose deaths from the drug in the U.S. Reuters reports that a United Nations counternarcotics program that seeks to stop fentanyl chemicals from reaching Mexico’s drug cartels has been held up by Trump’s aid freeze, citing eight unnamed sources. The effort gave the Mexican navy training and equipment to boost screening at Mexico’s busiest container port, the Port of Manzanillo. Two more Mexican ports were supposed to be added to the initiative this month until funding was cut off https://newrepublic.com/post/191906/trump-funding-freeze-drugs-mexico-border