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itsbruce in reply to @hugo7

It has laid the foundation of the sort of risk taking and entrepreneurial spirt that has made this back water island into a global player

I think we were invading other places, pillaging their resources and forcing them to buy the resulting produce back from us some time before that.

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ChasnotRobert in reply to @itsbruce

I was about to write the same - it was wars of aggression and colonialism that made this backwater island into a rich backwater island.

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itsbruce in reply to @ChasnotRobert

Gotta sell that opium. Gotta fight wars to force people to buy that opium, then demonise them as drug addicts and dealers who use opium to kidnap white girls.

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