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Re:Soviet Union sold titanium to US believing they needed it... by hkt on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:12AM (#36388542)
> They will also joke about how they secretly sell drugs to America to make them useless and make society unstable.

This actually happened to China: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

Weird that we in the west are now projecting about it, especially when our own pharmaceuticals companies are doing so much of the damage.

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Re:Soviet Union sold titanium to US believing they needed it... by trashtester on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:19AM (#36389729)
> This actually happened to China

That was an atrocity then, and if China is returning the favor, it's an atrocity now.

> especially when our own pharmaceuticals companies are doing so much of the damage.

There are probably quite a few people in those companies, or among corrupt doctors and politicians taking their bribes, that belong in prison.

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Re:Soviet Union sold titanium to US believing they needed it... by hkt on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:01AM (#36390571)
The thing is, China isn't doing it now. American capitalism is. That's what's different - the opium wars required the exercise of force, today's opium crisis simply requires the wealthy to bribe the powerful.
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Re:Soviet Union sold titanium to US believing they needed it... by lern_too_spel on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:53PM (#36393335)
It was capitalism then too. It was only when China tried to regulate it that the narco-state of Great Britain stepped in with military force.
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Re:Soviet Union sold titanium to US believing they needed it... by hkt on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:35AM (#36401653)
Yes, fair point, imperialism's jobhas always been to protect and extend capitalism.
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