If you live in North America, you surely must have heard about the fentanyl crisis that has taken the lives of 100,000 young Americans.
Some of the media pundits point to China as the source of this powerful and merciless drug. Western social media is awash with lamentations calling for measures to be enacted against the Chinese Communist Party as the peddler and pusher of this poison on Western Youth.
I am not so sure as to the veracity of this allegation.
But historically speaking since the Collective East is facing off the Collective West and given the historical precedent, I wouldn’t put it past China to try and pull a Drug War 2.0 on those bloody westerners who sought its demise in the 1800s.
You see folks, back then not one but two wars of intervention were waged by Britain against sovereign China for the mere goal of imposing the importation and consumption of Indian opium on Chinese territory.
The objective: get the Chinese addicted to British hallucinogenic drugs cultivated and harvested in the Indian Raj.
While the British ploy to undermine China worked, it left a heavy scar on its psyche, making it prone to taking a historical revanchist approach in the future.
Well, time has certainly lapsed… and that future is here.
China is well on its way to becoming a peer competitor to the United States of America.
And competition at this level means war. It doesn’t have to be a bloody hot conflict. A low-level, incognito type of warfare waged via a street drug seems to me as the perfect way to achieve political ends while also getting the satisfaction of undermining your opponent in a revengeful way.
Götterdämmerung 