Like ridding the world of Nazism, much Communism and Napoleonism; spreading democracy and freedom of speech; and founding Canada?
The Chinese were the wrong'uns in the Opium Wars, not the British. You've been reading too much of the anti-British, propagandised, fictional version of the Opium Wars that dominates today.
You are not spreading freedom of speech for anybody but yourselves. That is what you do when carving out an empire that the sun never sets on. When you operate in the 20th century using 15th century methods the odds are very high it is now less than being the best method available.
When you say 'founding' that indicates where left the nest at some point. That isn't the case at all, when the UK says 'jump' we say 'how high?'. Making it appear like we have an an independent voice is a bit of a sham is it it not?? We have certain friends that we seem to be willing to defend not matter how immoral their behavior is.
I haven't been reading anything other than the way the UK publishes their headlines that are intended for public consumption and their is a high tendency to be less than fully honest with the public. That is not a trait that has recently been acquired so that means it has a history of being used to deceive the public as they would not support the 'King' going off on wars to help his friends get richer than they already are, material wealth is what the EU Royals are all about.
Let's be a bit clear about the past, the royals had access to all sorts of 'drugs' that were not available to the general public. The only version of the (original) opium wars is what the UK has published. How about some history of drug use in the 'elite' of not only the UK but the rest of Europe as well. I'm quite sure that is today's tactics were used back then there would be more 'False Flags' used as a scare tactic to get support from 'the surfs'. By stating there is no hidden history you are stating an opinion rather than a fact. The 2 page pdf points to the Royals using drugs, a bit more digging will show is was more common than not. About the same path that tobacco once it was introduced to the Royals back in the motherland.
I have no idea if there are documents to support my opinion or not.This too me about 3 seconds to find and to try and promote the EU weren't as party hungry as any Viking is bullshit. What they did do is put on a false front for the surfs and the Vikings never bothered with any deception.
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/publ...0910_047-yes_the_british_royals_did_use_d.pdf
10 seconds The last bit seem to be describing the Royals as acting like the same drug dealers from the UK that have an interest in the heroin in Afghanistan. If it was suppressed earlier and the RCC would have been punishing the flock rather than the leaders of the countries. This is a better history of opium use by the Royals in Europe. Long before China was getting boatloads of the stuff thanks to the UK. The same tactics are in use today when dealing with other nations based current trends. Perhaps your history books need a rewrite.
Drugs through time: Drugs and the laws that control them through history | TalkingDrugs
Drugs Through Time: 1500-1799
1500s
In the 16th century, the Mughal empire in India plays host to the world’s first recorded culture of recreational opium use- taking drugs for leisure and pleasure. Opium is exported to other Asian states, with production organised under a government monopoly.
1527
The renaissance physician and alchemist Paracelsus reintroduces opium into Europe in the form of Laudanum, a tincture of opium in an alcohol solution. During the high Middle Ages, the Inquisition had apparently succeeded in suppressing the use of this drug, for it largely disappears from the cultural record. As a substance signified as 'oriental', opium was viewed by the Inquisition as bearing the taint of heresy. Perhaps its use was driven underground. In any event, with the advent of the renaissance it is reinstated into European medical literature, and is referred to in the works of Shakespeare and Spenser.
1606
English trading ships chartered by Queen Elizabeth commence the importation of Indian Opium into the UK.
1625-1680
Thomas Sydenham, amongst the most celebrated of early English medical practitioners, receives the epithet 'opiophilos' or 'lover of opium' owing to his enthusiastic therapeutic deployment of the drug. 'Among the remedies which it has pleased the Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings,' wrote Sydenham, 'none is so universal and efficacious as opium.' The use of his recipe for laudanum would persist into the 19th century.
1715
The British East India Company (‘EIC’) is granted trading rights and opens its first ‘factory’ (an agency or trading station) at Canton on the south coast of China. It must be kept in mind that this was a company chartered by the British crown, and could (and did) command armies and warships to enforce its will.
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[*]c.1300 B.C.
In the capital city of Thebes, Egyptians begin cultivation of opium thebaicum, grown in their famous poppy fields. The opium trade flourishes during the reign of Thutmose IV, Akhenaton and King Tutankhamen. The trade route included the Phoenicians and Minoans who move the profitable item across the Mediterranean Sea into Greece, Carthage, and Europe.
[*]c.1100 B.C.
On the island of Cyprus, the "Peoples of the Sea" craft surgical-quality culling knives to harvest opium, which they would cultivate, trade and smoke before the fall of Troy.
[*]c. 460 B.C.
Hippocrates, "the father of medicine", dismisses the magical attributes of opium but acknowledges its usefulness as a narcotic and styptic in treating internal diseases, diseases of women and epidemics.
[*]330 B.C.
Alexander the Great introduces opium to the people of Persia and India.
[*]A.D. 400
Opium thebaicum, from the Egyptian fields at Thebes, is first introduced to China by Arab traders.
[*]1020
Avicenna of Persia teaches that opium is "the most powerful of stupefacients."
[*]A.D. 1200
Ancient Indian medical treatises The Shodal Gadanigrah and Sharangdhar Samahita describe the use of opium for diarrhoea and sexual debility. The Dhanvantri Nighantu also describes the medical properties of opium.
[*]1300s
Opium disappears for two hundred years from European historical record. Opium had become a taboo subject for those in circles of learning during the Holy Inquisition. In the eyes of the Inquisition, anything from the East was linked to the Devil.[/SIZE]
