British merchants selling opium in China

French Africa is doing better than British Africa desu

>population replacement
Kind of shitty for their indigenous populations don't you think?

>Insurgency in the Maghreb for almost 20 years
>Mali fighting ISIS
>The Pool War
Not really

>Niger
>chad
>congolese civil war
No

Chinks were already addicted to opium. The only thing the British are guilty of was selling them a superior product to what they were already buying from Chinese merchants, for cheaper than the Chinese merchants were selling, allowing opium consumption to move beyond a vice strictly for the decadent and idle rich to a vice for the masses.

right...

DRC was Belgian, it's just French-speaking. Meanwhile British colonial successes include:

>Sierra Leone
>Sudan/South Sudan
>Uganda
>Nigeria
>Somalia (partial)

Opium did not become regulated in Britain until 1868, eight years after the end of the 2nd Opium War, and even then the law was only that it must be sold by pharmacists.

And how does that equate to "Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are shitholes", retard?

>Why do the Anglos keep up the illusion that their empire was more benevolent than others?

We don't. We just don't care enough to feel guilty.

Your welcome for the rail-roads etc

>We don't. We just don't care enough to feel guilty.
>M-muh diversity!
You do actually.

genocide and population replacement are not quite benevolent acts

The ones where the natives were exterminated?

Nah. Not really. We just appropriated everything sort of cool and let the smart people move here. Now we're leaving the EU because too many brown people are crimping our style

It's not you baby, it's us. And also you.

And how does that equate to "Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are shitholes", retard?

Could you imagine this as some sort of sci-fi film where aliens invade, get everyone drinking their goo, use this as pretext for invasion/colonization, then subsequently win the following war?

I mean the British didn't bring the opium with them, they simply organized the production that was already there

This, if anything else, is the most hilariously British part of the whole misadventure.

The English arrive and see the populace abusing a narcotic drug, and their first thoughts are "NO NO NO. THIS IS ALL WRONG.... WE CAN DO THIS BETTER. CHING CHONG, FETCH MY PEN, WE'RE GOING TO ORGANIZE THIS"

>Egypt
>South Africa

Because it was.
They defeated the c*ntinental European "Empires" every time they went crazy. The colonies helped them do it and almost all of them are now better off than their neighbors.

>India
>Pakistan
>Iraq
butiful british civilisations

Frenchmen detected..
*teleports behind you*

>Aside from literally the 4 best countries to live in
>Also the 4 most thoroughly colonized
Wow the Brits truly are the scourge of the earth...
It's easier to argue that places like Sudan and Pakistan are such messes is because the British were so light-handed with their rule than because of the rapacity of colonialism.

We never raped anybody.

None of these but replace it with Botswana.

Remember Macau, brasil, goa (richest part in India ), cabo verde and AngolA are all better then theyre ethnic couter parts.
British are truly jews

If they didn't want their palaces smashed they should have bought our opium. Its their own fault really.

Dutch were some of the most benevolent colonizators.

The french joined to punish the chinese for killing a french missionary, not to sell drugs

>literally colonise a country for the sole purpose of making money from it
>benevolent
>brutally beat down uprisings whenever they spring up, with a heavy civilian death count
>benevolent

sounds like India desu

How were the British any better than drug cartels nowadays. Queen Victoria is pretty much an overglorified drug queen.

they're certainly comparable, in the sense that both India and Indonesia were taken over by semi-autonomous private companies

>better organization
>better production methods
>better quality product
>better infrastructure
>better military force
>better trade and distribution methods
>more efficient use of violence
>higher profits

Modern drug cartels are amateurs compared to Anglo drug trade
They also made huge fortunes with sugar, alcohol (Whisky), tabacco and tea. They pretty much build their empire around addictive substances.

True but pointless. British East Indian Company was the ones producing opium in the first place in India. Which resulted in many famines in India too because cash crops replaced actual food.

The Maori did alright, we signed a couple of treaties and still have a large cultural and physical presence on the NZ Isles

Obsessed, stay upset over the fact America has been the most successful nation in the past 80 years.

FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY

>become the most powerful nation the world has ever seen after the collapse of it's peer rivial.
>proceed to lose it's hard won influence in an unprecedented 30 years by bombing poor people in a desert and electing a buffoon
You are right about one thing at least, America is unprecedented when it comes to how fast they amassed influence and then lost it by spilling it's spaghetti

your jealousy is so transparent

not forgetting
>Francafrique

>visit the Summer Palace with a couple locals
>they get visibly angry when the old palace that we anglo'd is brought up in conversation
pretty scared for the future of britain tbqhwy lads

In most former British colonies all the locals died and were replaced with anglos?
Benevolent as fuck.

Yeah french Africa has aids and British Africa has ebola

British Africa is mostly nigger.

FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY

British (((merchants))) eh?? ;)

Fuck off. They joined for diplomatic representation and freer trade

Anyone else notice how this example completely blows the "lets legalize all drugs" position out of the water?

Next time you hear some lefty loser degenerate bitching about how "all drugs should be legalize doood", point to this.

>alcohol (Whisky)
Could you please tell me more about Liquor production in the 19th and 20th centuries?