Is China doing to America with Fentanyl what the British did to China with opium in the eighteenth century?

[Doc7505]

Is China doing to America with Fentanyl what the British did to China with opium in the eighteenth century?​

https://conservativepapers.com/news/2023/05/25/is-china-doing-to-america-with-fentanil-what-the-british-did-to-china-with-opium-in-the-eighteenth-century/

25 May 2023 ~~ By Ezequiel Doiny

On May 23, 2023 Rep. Murphy wrote in the Washington Examiner “Every day, a family learns the devastating news that a loved one has fallen victim to America’s deadliest drug epidemic: fentanyl. Perhaps it’s a mother awoken in the middle of the night to a dreaded phone call, or a father who comes home and must administer Narcan.
” As the only practicing surgeon in Congress, I know that the roots of this epidemic did not appear overnight. Over thirty years ago, the “War on Pain” commenced due to the overprescribing of opioids.
“Overprescribing reached a climax in 2012 when health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers, enough for every American adult to have a bottle in their pocket. By 2016, we witnessed in horror the most opioid overdose fatalities on record -with 42,000 Americans tragically taken by this crisis.
The very next year the Trump Administration moved to declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. While overprescribing opioids has drastically dropped since then, saving many lives, the Biden Administration opened the floodgates for an even deadlier drug – illicit fentanyl – to fill this void.
~Snip~
here are similarities between today’s fentanyl epidemic in America and the opium epidemic in China during the eighteenth century.
The Columbia University website explains “Two things happened in the eighteenth century that made it difficult for England to balance its trade with the East.
First, the British became a nation of tea drinkers and the demand for Chinese tea rose astronomically. It is estimated that the average London worker spent five percent of his or her total household budget on tea.
~Snip~
The only solution was to increase the amount of Indian goods to pay for these Chinese luxuries, and increasingly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the item provided to China was Bengal opium. With greater opium supplies had naturally come an increase in demand and usage throughout the country, in spite of repeated prohibitions by the Chinese government and officials.
The British did all they could to increase the trade: They bribed officials, helped the Chinese work out elaborate smuggling schemes to get the opium into China’s interior, and distributed free samples of the drug to innocent victims.
”The cost to China was enormous. The drug weakened a large percentage of the population (some estimate that 10 percent of the population regularly used opium by the late nineteenth century), and silver began to flow out of the country to pay for the opium. Many of the economic problems China faced later were either directly or indirectly traced to the opium trade.
~Snip~
Mexican drug cartels are expanding their role into crimes against nature, and they are also increasingly infiltrating and seeking to dominate a variety of legal economies in Mexico, including fisheries, logging, and agriculture and extorting an even wider array of legal economies. For example, Mexican organized crime groups, especially the Sinaloa Cartel, seek to monopolize both legal and illegal fisheries along the entire vertical supply chain. There may also be a growing involvement of Chinese fishing ships in facilitating drug trafficking…”

China’s role in the fentanyl crisis | Brookings

Chinese actors have come to play an increasing role in laundering money for Mexican cartels, including the principal distributors of fentanyl to the United States.

www.google.com

Commentary:
Wow, It just took nearly three decades to figure that out.
China talks about their “century of humiliation” at the hands of the West beginning with the opium wars. I don’t doubt that their leadership is fully cognizant of delivering payback with fentanyl.
This is what happens when Democrats destroy our teaching system and delete history from the syllabus.
Historians frequently ask, why didn't they stop it the flood of Opium in China?
Well, many people knew what was happening and some people tried, but the regime was too indebted, too bloated, too wrapped-up in palace intrigue and power-games in the capital, worried only about maintaining their own power. The elites felt it was a problem of peasants and lower-classes so far from them that it didn't matter. Eventually, China got their butts kicked militarily by foreign powers, civil wars broke out domestically, and eventually the emperor was powerless to control anything.
It looks like we may follow the same path.
Meanwhile our 46th President, doesn't have the will or time to close our borders and plug the smuggling avenues.
You have to wonder just how much is China paying the fully corrupted, crooked, TREASONOUS, bastards in the Biden Crime Family?

 

[Augustine_]

Hey maybe they're just "helping" us the way republicans claim colonialism "helped" the rest of the world

 

[Moonglow]

Is China doing to America with Fentanyl what the British did to China with opium in the eighteenth century?​

https://conservativepapers.com/news/2023/05/25/is-china-doing-to-america-with-fentanil-what-the-british-did-to-china-with-opium-in-the-eighteenth-century/

25 May 2023 ~~ By Ezequiel Doiny

On May 23, 2023 Rep. Murphy wrote in the Washington Examiner “Every day, a family learns the devastating news that a loved one has fallen victim to America’s deadliest drug epidemic: fentanyl. Perhaps it’s a mother awoken in the middle of the night to a dreaded phone call, or a father who comes home and must administer Narcan.
” As the only practicing surgeon in Congress, I know that the roots of this epidemic did not appear overnight. Over thirty years ago, the “War on Pain” commenced due to the overprescribing of opioids.
“Overprescribing reached a climax in 2012 when health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers, enough for every American adult to have a bottle in their pocket. By 2016, we witnessed in horror the most opioid overdose fatalities on record -with 42,000 Americans tragically taken by this crisis.
The very next year the Trump Administration moved to declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. While overprescribing opioids has drastically dropped since then, saving many lives, the Biden Administration opened the floodgates for an even deadlier drug – illicit fentanyl – to fill this void.
~Snip~
here are similarities between today’s fentanyl epidemic in America and the opium epidemic in China during the eighteenth century.
The Columbia University website explains “Two things happened in the eighteenth century that made it difficult for England to balance its trade with the East.
First, the British became a nation of tea drinkers and the demand for Chinese tea rose astronomically. It is estimated that the average London worker spent five percent of his or her total household budget on tea.
~Snip~
The only solution was to increase the amount of Indian goods to pay for these Chinese luxuries, and increasingly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the item provided to China was Bengal opium. With greater opium supplies had naturally come an increase in demand and usage throughout the country, in spite of repeated prohibitions by the Chinese government and officials.
The British did all they could to increase the trade: They bribed officials, helped the Chinese work out elaborate smuggling schemes to get the opium into China’s interior, and distributed free samples of the drug to innocent victims.
”The cost to China was enormous. The drug weakened a large percentage of the population (some estimate that 10 percent of the population regularly used opium by the late nineteenth century), and silver began to flow out of the country to pay for the opium. Many of the economic problems China faced later were either directly or indirectly traced to the opium trade.
~Snip~
Mexican drug cartels are expanding their role into crimes against nature, and they are also increasingly infiltrating and seeking to dominate a variety of legal economies in Mexico, including fisheries, logging, and agriculture and extorting an even wider array of legal economies. For example, Mexican organized crime groups, especially the Sinaloa Cartel, seek to monopolize both legal and illegal fisheries along the entire vertical supply chain. There may also be a growing involvement of Chinese fishing ships in facilitating drug trafficking…”

China’s role in the fentanyl crisis | Brookings

Chinese actors have come to play an increasing role in laundering money for Mexican cartels, including the principal distributors of fentanyl to the United States.

www.google.com

Commentary:
Wow, It just took nearly three decades to figure that out.
China talks about their “century of humiliation” at the hands of the West beginning with the opium wars. I don’t doubt that their leadership is fully cognizant of delivering payback with fentanyl.
This is what happens when Democrats destroy our teaching system and delete history from the syllabus.
Historians frequently ask, why didn't they stop it the flood of Opium in China?
Well, many people knew what was happening and some people tried, but the regime was too indebted, too bloated, too wrapped-up in palace intrigue and power-games in the capital, worried only about maintaining their own power. The elites felt it was a problem of peasants and lower-classes so far from them that it didn't matter. Eventually, China got their butts kicked militarily by foreign powers, civil wars broke out domestically, and eventually the emperor was powerless to control anything.
It looks like we may follow the same path.
Meanwhile our 46th President, doesn't have the will or time to close our borders and plug the smuggling avenues.
You have to wonder just how much is China paying the fully corrupted, crooked, TREASONOUS, bastards in the Biden Crime Family?

No China doesn't have any wooden sloops delivering drugz to the coast of the US.

 

[Moonglow]

Hey maybe they're just "helping" us the way republicans claim colonialism "helped" the rest of the world

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

 

[MarathonMike]

Is China doing to America with Fentanyl what the British did to China with opium in the eighteenth century?​

https://conservativepapers.com/news/2023/05/25/is-china-doing-to-america-with-fentanil-what-the-british-did-to-china-with-opium-in-the-eighteenth-century/

25 May 2023 ~~ By Ezequiel Doiny

On May 23, 2023 Rep. Murphy wrote in the Washington Examiner “Every day, a family learns the devastating news that a loved one has fallen victim to America’s deadliest drug epidemic: fentanyl. Perhaps it’s a mother awoken in the middle of the night to a dreaded phone call, or a father who comes home and must administer Narcan.
” As the only practicing surgeon in Congress, I know that the roots of this epidemic did not appear overnight. Over thirty years ago, the “War on Pain” commenced due to the overprescribing of opioids.
“Overprescribing reached a climax in 2012 when health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers, enough for every American adult to have a bottle in their pocket. By 2016, we witnessed in horror the most opioid overdose fatalities on record -with 42,000 Americans tragically taken by this crisis.
The very next year the Trump Administration moved to declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. While overprescribing opioids has drastically dropped since then, saving many lives, the Biden Administration opened the floodgates for an even deadlier drug – illicit fentanyl – to fill this void.
~Snip~
here are similarities between today’s fentanyl epidemic in America and the opium epidemic in China during the eighteenth century.
The Columbia University website explains “Two things happened in the eighteenth century that made it difficult for England to balance its trade with the East.
First, the British became a nation of tea drinkers and the demand for Chinese tea rose astronomically. It is estimated that the average London worker spent five percent of his or her total household budget on tea.
~Snip~
The only solution was to increase the amount of Indian goods to pay for these Chinese luxuries, and increasingly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the item provided to China was Bengal opium. With greater opium supplies had naturally come an increase in demand and usage throughout the country, in spite of repeated prohibitions by the Chinese government and officials.
The British did all they could to increase the trade: They bribed officials, helped the Chinese work out elaborate smuggling schemes to get the opium into China’s interior, and distributed free samples of the drug to innocent victims.
”The cost to China was enormous. The drug weakened a large percentage of the population (some estimate that 10 percent of the population regularly used opium by the late nineteenth century), and silver began to flow out of the country to pay for the opium. Many of the economic problems China faced later were either directly or indirectly traced to the opium trade.
~Snip~
Mexican drug cartels are expanding their role into crimes against nature, and they are also increasingly infiltrating and seeking to dominate a variety of legal economies in Mexico, including fisheries, logging, and agriculture and extorting an even wider array of legal economies. For example, Mexican organized crime groups, especially the Sinaloa Cartel, seek to monopolize both legal and illegal fisheries along the entire vertical supply chain. There may also be a growing involvement of Chinese fishing ships in facilitating drug trafficking…”

China’s role in the fentanyl crisis | Brookings

Chinese actors have come to play an increasing role in laundering money for Mexican cartels, including the principal distributors of fentanyl to the United States.

www.google.com

Commentary:
Wow, It just took nearly three decades to figure that out.
China talks about their “century of humiliation” at the hands of the West beginning with the opium wars. I don’t doubt that their leadership is fully cognizant of delivering payback with fentanyl.
This is what happens when Democrats destroy our teaching system and delete history from the syllabus.
Historians frequently ask, why didn't they stop it the flood of Opium in China?
Well, many people knew what was happening and some people tried, but the regime was too indebted, too bloated, too wrapped-up in palace intrigue and power-games in the capital, worried only about maintaining their own powe r. The elites felt it was a problem of peasants and lower-classes so far from them that it didn't matter. Eventually, China got their butts kicked militarily by foreign powers, civil wars broke out domestically, and eventually the emperor was powerless to control anything.
It looks like we may follow the same path.
Meanwhile our 46th President, doesn't have the will or time to close our borders and plug the smuggling avenues.
You have to wonder just how much is China paying the fully corrupted, crooked, TREASONOUS, bastards in the Biden Crime Family?

Very interesting, I hadn't thought of that. I could see Jinping using that as a rationale for launching their Fentanyl attack on the US.

 

[MarathonMike]

No China doesn't have any wooden sloops delivering drugz to the coast of the US.

No, they have great big shiny tankers delivering Fentanyl precursors to Mexico.

 

[cnm]

Is China doing to America with Fentanyl what the British did to China with opium in the eighteenth century?​

I wonder when the expeditionary force will sail.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Is China doing to America with Fentanyl what the British did to China with opium in the eighteenth century?​

https://conservativepapers.com/news/2023/05/25/is-china-doing-to-america-with-fentanil-what-the-british-did-to-china-with-opium-in-the-eighteenth-century/

25 May 2023 ~~ By Ezequiel Doiny

On May 23, 2023 Rep. Murphy wrote in the Washington Examiner “Every day, a family learns the devastating news that a loved one has fallen victim to America’s deadliest drug epidemic: fentanyl. Perhaps it’s a mother awoken in the middle of the night to a dreaded phone call, or a father who comes home and must administer Narcan.
” As the only practicing surgeon in Congress, I know that the roots of this epidemic did not appear overnight. Over thirty years ago, the “War on Pain” commenced due to the overprescribing of opioids.
“Overprescribing reached a climax in 2012 when health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers, enough for every American adult to have a bottle in their pocket. By 2016, we witnessed in horror the most opioid overdose fatalities on record -with 42,000 Americans tragically taken by this crisis.
The very next year the Trump Administration moved to declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. While overprescribing opioids has drastically dropped since then, saving many lives, the Biden Administration opened the floodgates for an even deadlier drug – illicit fentanyl – to fill this void.
~Snip~
here are similarities between today’s fentanyl epidemic in America and the opium epidemic in China during the eighteenth century.
The Columbia University website explains “Two things happened in the eighteenth century that made it difficult for England to balance its trade with the East.
First, the British became a nation of tea drinkers and the demand for Chinese tea rose astronomically. It is estimated that the average London worker spent five percent of his or her total household budget on tea.
~Snip~
The only solution was to increase the amount of Indian goods to pay for these Chinese luxuries, and increasingly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the item provided to China was Bengal opium. With greater opium supplies had naturally come an increase in demand and usage throughout the country, in spite of repeated prohibitions by the Chinese government and officials.
The British did all they could to increase the trade: They bribed officials, helped the Chinese work out elaborate smuggling schemes to get the opium into China’s interior, and distributed free samples of the drug to innocent victims.
”The cost to China was enormous. The drug weakened a large percentage of the population (some estimate that 10 percent of the population regularly used opium by the late nineteenth century), and silver began to flow out of the country to pay for the opium. Many of the economic problems China faced later were either directly or indirectly traced to the opium trade.
~Snip~
Mexican drug cartels are expanding their role into crimes against nature, and they are also increasingly infiltrating and seeking to dominate a variety of legal economies in Mexico, including fisheries, logging, and agriculture and extorting an even wider array of legal economies. For example, Mexican organized crime groups, especially the Sinaloa Cartel, seek to monopolize both legal and illegal fisheries along the entire vertical supply chain. There may also be a growing involvement of Chinese fishing ships in facilitating drug trafficking…”

China’s role in the fentanyl crisis | Brookings

Chinese actors have come to play an increasing role in laundering money for Mexican cartels, including the principal distributors of fentanyl to the United States.

www.google.com

Commentary:
Wow, It just took nearly three decades to figure that out.
China talks about their “century of humiliation” at the hands of the West beginning with the opium wars. I don’t doubt that their leadership is fully cognizant of delivering payback with fentanyl.
This is what happens when Democrats destroy our teaching system and delete history from the syllabus.
Historians frequently ask, why didn't they stop it the flood of Opium in China?
Well, many people knew what was happening and some people tried, but the regime was too indebted, too bloated, too wrapped-up in palace intrigue and power-games in the capital, worried only about maintaining their own power. The elites felt it was a problem of peasants and lower-classes so far from them that it didn't matter. Eventually, China got their butts kicked militarily by foreign powers, civil wars broke out domestically, and eventually the emperor was powerless to control anything.
It looks like we may follow the same path.
Meanwhile our 46th President, doesn't have the will or time to close our borders and plug the smuggling avenues.
You have to wonder just how much is China paying the fully corrupted, crooked, TREASONOUS, bastards in the Biden Crime Family?

Hey, who is forcing Americans to use those drugs?


What happened to personal responsibility??



At least that is what you right-wingers told us when you felt only black people were the ones dying from drugs...

 

[Doc7505]

Fentanyl and the Third Opium War​

Fentanyl and the Third Opium War - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

It’s been said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. We might want to add to that cliché that sometimes, when it repeats, shoes can be on other feet and tables can be turned. In...

spectator.org

15 Mar 2019 ~~ By Clifford Humphrey

It’s been said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. We might want to add to that cliché that sometimes, when it repeats, shoes can be on other feet and tables can be turned. In the midst of the U.S. trade talks with China, an ironic and tragic historical drama is replaying before our eyes.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents recently seized the largest amount of fentanyl in history. The confiscation was enough for around 100 million Americans to overdose with and die. Let that sink in.
Two facts give this situation historic irony. Fentanyl is an opiate, and we have reason to believe that most of it comes from China. In the 19th century, England fought a series of wars with China to force Chinese ports to accept the opium trade. American merchants took advantage of the British victory and the Chinese addicts by engaging in the opium trade as well. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s grandfather amassed his wealth from the trade. Although some American missionaries at first tried to curb the trade, America’s part in this story is our shame.
Of relevance to the present trade talks between our two countries is the moral lesson the Opium Wars offer. China today has the opportunity to do what we failed to do 200 years ago — stem the flow of opium flooding our borders and drowning the hopes of millions of Americans. Further, in 1839 one of China’s own, an imperial officer named Lin Zexu, made a moral argument against the opium trade in a letter to Queen Victoria, and the nobility of Lin’s moral argument is just as compelling today as it should have been in the 19th century.
The queen probably never saw Lin’s letter, and president Xi Jinping will likely not read this article. Nevertheless, I quote a few passages here from Lin’s letter because the beauty and humanity of his argument is persuasive that moral concerns in trade deals are just as important to the self-interest of one nation as to another. The punishment Lin endorsed for using opium — the death penalty — seems draconian to us today, but he would find our relative laxity toward the sky-rocketing increase of abuse of fentanyl just as cruel.
In order to make the irony explicit, I take the liberty to swap the names of China and foreigner in Lin’s letter so that the appeal seems now to be to China — not from China — and for the sake of America.
~Snip~
President Trump is right to make frequent mention of what he calls the “tragedy” of the “fentanyl epidemic.” Let us hope that as trade talks with China continue, president Xi and his ministers remember the plea that China once made with a western trading power to recognize its interest in recognizing its obligation.

Commentary:
Read more:

Fentanyl and geopolitics: Controlling opioid supply from China | Brookings

Vanda Felbab-Brown examines whether and how effectively China will enforce new regulation prohibiting the production, sales, and export of all fentanyl class drugs without government authorization.

www.brookings.edu

 

[Doc7505]

China: White House Cocaine Scandal Proves America’s Status as ‘Drug-Infested Nation’​

China: White House Cocaine Scandal Proves America Is 'Drug-Infested'

China's Global Times mocked the ongoing mystery of the discovery of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House in a column Thursday.

www.breitbart.com

8Jul 2023 ~~ By Frances Martel

(Excerpt)
Referring to the Politico report, the Global Times explained in a column on Thursday:

While cocaine was found at the presidential palace of the world’s most powerful country, a location known for its high level of security and extensive protection measures, US officials are unable to identify the responsible party and attribute it to the limitations of White House surveillance cameras. Isn’t it ridiculous to rely on such a feeble excuse to navigate through this situation?​

The state newspaper predicted no “actual result from the promised investigation” into the discovery of the drug and went on to claim that drug use by presidents or in the White House was a common historical phenomenon and a product of America’s culture, presumably inferior to Chinese communist authoritarianism.
“The presence of drugs in the White House serves as a perfect example of the inability of the US, as a drug-infested nation, to manage illegal substances effectively,” the Chinese propaganda outlet asserted, calling Biden “the face of the drug epidemic in the country.”
“With illegal substances infiltrating the White House and US presidents setting an example as drug users, one wonders if the US can ever truly eradicate its drug crisis,” the outlet proclaimed, citing Chinese regime-approved “experts” that Democrats in particular “call for looser drug regulation, which means they indulge drugs.”
The Chinese government, through its media outlets, has, for years, condemned American “values” as inferior to Chinese communism because of the existence of drug use in the United States.
~Snip~
In the same article, the Global Times admitted that suppliers can freely generate precursor substances under the Chinese government.
“Disregarding these intensive drug-control efforts by China, the US has hyped that the country is ‘sourcing fentanyl precursor chemicals from China,’ trying to put the label of ‘drug trafficker’ on China,” the state newspaper claimed.
“This kind of hype is very amateurish. The ‘fentanyl precursors’ mentioned by the US are actually chemicals that can be used in the production of fentanyl, but they are ordinary commodities that are not controlled under international drug conventions and Chinese law,” it revealed.
“A recent discovery of cocaine in the White House once again exposed the chaotic management over drugs in the US,” the article concluded.


Commentary:
We've become a drug infested government with a CIA reaping the profits and a fake FBI who covers up for them.
I hate taking lectures from China, but indeed - finding of illegal drugs in the West Wing of the Whitehouse is indeed a clear marker of the decline of morality, discipline, and order of the US.
From the sounds of it, the Chinese love for the Biden Crime Family and their influence peddling scheme is coming to an end.
Note to China: -- If you want to buy influence from US Politicians---you might want to give them an IQ test first!
In the end, It also proves we have dysfunctional Trailer Trash in the Whitehouse. How pathetic.

 

[Kruska]

Is China doing to America with Fentanyl what the British did to China with opium in the eighteenth century?​

No you moron,

China does not militarily occupy US territory, enacting cannon-boat policy of and within the US coastal areas and main rivers, and therefore does NOT enforces drug trade and consumption in the USA.
You fellows been snorting, injecting and smoking that shit - way before the PRC was founded, and even the KMT ruled China.

So start to get your own shit together - instead of laying blame onto others.

 

[Kruska]

No, they have great big shiny tankers delivering Fentanyl precursors to Mexico.

And since when does Mexico belong to the USA? - start getting your border controls in line with that of civilized countries. Free the DEA and FBI to do their job and enforce rigorous anti drug laws - something that is sooo easy to do in a democratic country - right?

 

[Doc7505]

And since when does Mexico belong to the USA? - start getting your border controls in line with that of civilized countries. Free the DEA and FBI to do their job and enforce rigorous anti drug laws - something that is sooo easy to do in a democratic country - right?

~~~~~~
So you're finally claiming the Biden administration, Mayorkas and Maoist Democrats in Congress have done nothing to seal the border unlike wat Trump attempted to do?
Are you one of those that were yelling border walls don't work during 2017 to 2020?

 

[fncceo]

Let's be fair ... it is their turn.

 

[Doc7505]

No China doesn't have any wooden sloops delivering drugz to the coast of the US.

~~~~~~

The China-Mexico fentanyl pipeline: increasingly sophisticated and deadly

Advanced money-laundering techniques and clandestine precursor imports combine to stoke the opioid crisis – can the US stem the flow?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kruska]

~~~~~~
So you're finally claiming the Biden administration, Mayorkas and Maoist Democrats in Congress have done nothing to seal the border unlike wat Trump attempted to do?
Are you one of those that were yelling border walls don't work during 2017 to 2020?

No, I am claiming that drug abuse in the USA is a century old American problem - and not a Chinese, Colombian, Burmese or Mexican problem. If the Mexican police is willing to cooperate with the US law enforcement agencies - great, that would be a step in the right direction.

And the headline of your moronic thread is:

Is China doing to America with Fentanyl what the British did to China with opium in the eighteenth century?​

China isn't exporting Heroin but chemical component (for e.g. the production of painkillers) that Americans are so fond off, and which are almost impossible in China to get, even from a hospital or a dentist - so if China (which they do) exports glue and to the USA - then you would blame China for all your glue sniffers? And Honduras exports bananas - which a lot of drug idots use to enhance or even replace Marijuana - so you would blame Honduras too? simply idiotic.

As for the porous US border - that problem already exists since the 50'ies - Reagan didn't care much, since his CIA flew in the goodies directly into the USA. As for Trump he promised a whole lot - but didn't even manage to get a 700ml? border-fence done in 4 years. What laws did Trump enact to severely curb and punish drug trade and usage in the USA in his 4 years? Did he enact laws that forbid and destroy Marijuana farming in the USA? Tell me what did Trump do (not just promise) in regards to drug use in the USA?

Now you blame an incompetent Biden administration and the Obama administration - fair, what did the Bush administration do? AFAIK - nothing, also not in regards to the border.

Are you aware that there are no borders in the EU - respectively enforced and controlled borders. Is Fentanyl a problem in Europe?
Germany's consumption with 80 million people, onto fentanyl is as high as that of the USA - is there a Fentanyl Heroine-drug problem in Germany?

Fentanyl consumption by country worldwide 2018-2021 | Statista

During 2021, Germany was responsible for 14.5 percent of the world's total fentanyl consumption.

www.statista.com

The Mexican cartels, which had been experimenting with heroin substitutes such as fentanyl as far back as 2006, are responsible for the supply of most of the heroin sold on the streets of America. They found fentanyl easy to get hold of, mainly by importing it from China, but also producing it in their own labs. The potent hidden mixer helped shore-up unstable heroin supplies and was also easily mixed into the light-coloured "white" Mexican heroin increasingly dominating markets in the Northeast and Midwest. The downside, as soon became apparent, was that its high potency meant it started killing many more people than the heroin it was rapidly replacing.

 

[Blaster]

Record numbers of young Americans are dying from Fentanyl while Biden focuses his attention on Ukraine. What a shame.

 

[Kruska]

Record numbers of young Americans are dying from Fentanyl while Biden focuses his attention on Ukraine. What a shame.

I thought that Americans, especially MAGA's don't want the Fed or US government to "intrude" onto their lives. see e.g. FBI thread - now you complain that they don't.

This isn't about human scumbag Trump verses senile-lefty Biden - but the moral and cultural decline of Western democratic countries and their societies as a whole, since the 70ies - due to Lefty&Libs.
And it will take far more then a 4 year presidential term - to revert or even to slow this process within the US society.

 

[rampart]

Is China doing to America with Fentanyl what the British did to China with opium in the eighteenth century?​

https://conservativepapers.com/news/2023/05/25/is-china-doing-to-america-with-fentanil-what-the-british-did-to-china-with-opium-in-the-eighteenth-century/

25 May 2023 ~~ By Ezequiel Doiny

On May 23, 2023 Rep. Murphy wrote in the Washington Examiner “Every day, a family learns the devastating news that a loved one has fallen victim to America’s deadliest drug epidemic: fentanyl. Perhaps it’s a mother awoken in the middle of the night to a dreaded phone call, or a father who comes home and must administer Narcan.
” As the only practicing surgeon in Congress, I know that the roots of this epidemic did not appear overnight. Over thirty years ago, the “War on Pain” commenced due to the overprescribing of opioids.
“Overprescribing reached a climax in 2012 when health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers, enough for every American adult to have a bottle in their pocket. By 2016, we witnessed in horror the most opioid overdose fatalities on record -with 42,000 Americans tragically taken by this crisis.
The very next year the Trump Administration moved to declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. While overprescribing opioids has drastically dropped since then, saving many lives, the Biden Administration opened the floodgates for an even deadlier drug – illicit fentanyl – to fill this void.
~Snip~
here are similarities between today’s fentanyl epidemic in America and the opium epidemic in China during the eighteenth century.
The Columbia University website explains “Two things happened in the eighteenth century that made it difficult for England to balance its trade with the East.
First, the British became a nation of tea drinkers and the demand for Chinese tea rose astronomically. It is estimated that the average London worker spent five percent of his or her total household budget on tea.
~Snip~
The only solution was to increase the amount of Indian goods to pay for these Chinese luxuries, and increasingly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the item provided to China was Bengal opium. With greater opium supplies had naturally come an increase in demand and usage throughout the country, in spite of repeated prohibitions by the Chinese government and officials.
The British did all they could to increase the trade: They bribed officials, helped the Chinese work out elaborate smuggling schemes to get the opium into China’s interior, and distributed free samples of the drug to innocent victims.
”The cost to China was enormous. The drug weakened a large percentage of the population (some estimate that 10 percent of the population regularly used opium by the late nineteenth century), and silver began to flow out of the country to pay for the opium. Many of the economic problems China faced later were either directly or indirectly traced to the opium trade.
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Mexican drug cartels are expanding their role into crimes against nature, and they are also increasingly infiltrating and seeking to dominate a variety of legal economies in Mexico, including fisheries, logging, and agriculture and extorting an even wider array of legal economies. For example, Mexican organized crime groups, especially the Sinaloa Cartel, seek to monopolize both legal and illegal fisheries along the entire vertical supply chain. There may also be a growing involvement of Chinese fishing ships in facilitating drug trafficking…”

China’s role in the fentanyl crisis | Brookings

Chinese actors have come to play an increasing role in laundering money for Mexican cartels, including the principal distributors of fentanyl to the United States.

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Commentary:
Wow, It just took nearly three decades to figure that out.
China talks about their “century of humiliation” at the hands of the West beginning with the opium wars. I don’t doubt that their leadership is fully cognizant of delivering payback with fentanyl.
This is what happens when Democrats destroy our teaching system and delete history from the syllabus.
Historians frequently ask, why didn't they stop it the flood of Opium in China?
Well, many people knew what was happening and some people tried, but the regime was too indebted, too bloated, too wrapped-up in palace intrigue and power-games in the capital, worried only about maintaining their own power. The elites felt it was a problem of peasants and lower-classes so far from them that it didn't matter. Eventually, China got their butts kicked militarily by foreign powers, civil wars broke out domestically, and eventually the emperor was powerless to control anything.
It looks like we may follow the same path.
Meanwhile our 46th President, doesn't have the will or time to close our borders and plug the smuggling avenues.
You have to wonder just how much is China paying the fully corrupted, crooked, TREASONOUS, bastards in the Biden Crime Family?

any fair reading of history would place victoria among the greatest mass murderers.

 

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Record numbers of young Americans are dying from Fentanyl while Biden focuses his attention on Ukraine. What a shame.

am i supposed to care that a load of red state junkies are dying from bad drugs? if conditions are so bad out in the trailer park that your children turn to fentanyl maybe you need to stop blaming biden and get them some help.

"just say no" n reagan