british government gets the letter and sees how much the trade rep promised to pay for, apprently it is absolutely breathtaking they decide it would be cheaper to just go to war
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lol british in canton start firing at war junks months before parliament even meets to discuss it this shortly after the drug czar gets permission to kill everyone involved in opium and cuts off water to the english things are escalating quickly
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british SJWs opposing the war lionize the drug czar as a symbol of Progress, activists go on at length about how china is really powerful and the british would be fools to fight such a mighty enemy
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britains parliament drudges up its resident China Expert, everyone expects him to speak against war, he just yeets out and says "naw fuck them chinese" hes mad about the threats of executing smugglers
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what an incredibly stupid mess the six month round trip for messages probably made this possible
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Wow sounds like the model I was taught - “the British did a war so they could keep dealing drugs to extract china’s wealth” might be a slight oversimplification
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it really is! both governments go in basically just wanting to respect each other and have chill diplomatic relations, similarly most of the traders things just go bad because of series of fuckups by individuals on both sides, some malicious but most just grossly incompetent
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Holy shit there was a Chinese pirate queen with an armada of over a thousand ships!?? How have I never heard of this
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simoj Retweeted Anton Jäger
Update - did you see this?https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1359987183298482192 …
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Anton Jäger @AntonJaegermmSounds very intense: "'The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven' demonstrates that the Opium wars kickstarted the most important event of the Anthropocene: the military substitution of Qing China's world-leading carbon-neutral economy for an unsustainable Anglo-American coal capitalism." pic.twitter.com/aPtTk1x10MShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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