>opium war >the brit literally made war with another nation

>>2912728
Nobody cared because fuck China. There is not a single person outside China that enjoys dealing with the Chinese. This includes all the European powers (see: the only people with relevance at the time to make an international outrage) trying to acquire spheres of influence in China mostly unsuccessfully until that point, after which the flood gates basically opened.

Also British conscripts weren't necessarily willing to die for the East India company, but given how the war went they didn't really need to be.

But it wasn't about selling them a drug it was about free trade.
Duh OP.
It's okay though their getting their revenge with fentanyl

>>2912758
Fuck China sure but still, you would think that forcing a country to drug itself for greed would be less celebrated.

Maybe I'm just too naive.

>>2912728
It was pretty important because before opium Europe and Britain especially was running a massive trade deficit with China. The opium allowed to maintain an economic balance and made trade more feasible
Also never arrest a british merchant if you haven't got the most powerful navy in the world

>>2912728
British middle class were gaining an increasing foothold in Parliament, and used that to support their mercantile interests. The casus belli, as invoked, was the detention of British citizens and the destruction of their property when a Qing administrator decided to take action.

International community did not care. Affairs of state were largely conducted between two nations alone. The Qing didn't recognize inter-state diplomacy, so that isolated them even more.

British soldiers don't get a say. This is still an age in which soldiering was a glorified occupation.

File: 7e5.png (76KB, 460x568px)

76KB, 460x568px

Goddamn eternal anglo

>>2912801
>Massive trade deficit with China

Sounds like the US might have to do something similar.

>>2912728
Because real life is pretty disgusting like that and the British empire was one of the most disgusting empires in history.

>>2912872
We are currently farming hentai in Japan and transporting it to China for mass consumption as we speak. When China bans Hentai the US will initiate the Hentai War which will eventually morph into WWIII.

>>2912872
Its called the petrodollar and China loves buying them

File: India1837to1857.jpg (323KB, 1232x958px)

323KB, 1232x958px

>>2912728
>controlled territory for almost a century under the limited protection of the UK while being a corporation who only hired private military
British imperialism was unique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India

please someone post the ancap smiley with glasses image about the opium war

File: 213.png (357KB, 800x2048px)

357KB, 800x2048px

>>2913746
'ere