[Moltke]

PS: In any case it does not take much to recognize that potent drugs can be used as an effective weapon, on a small scale or a large scale.

Even if individual Americans had never been involved in the old opium trade, the lesson was learned by the Chinese.

[Zhang Fei]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

“First Opium War”, second paragraph - American involvement.

Probably enough for revenge actions by America’s greatest current enemy.

PS: In any case it does not take much to recognize that potent drugs can be used as an effective weapon, on a small scale or a large scale.

Even if individual Americans had never been involved in the old opium trade, the lesson was learned by the Chinese.]

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To reiterate the point I made earlier, drugs are not a weapon of any kind. The West had unfettered access to drugs throughout its fastest period of growth, and used more per capita due to its relative wealth than its colonial holdings. There’s a case to be made that China’s population is less susceptible, genetically-speaking, to drugs, if you use Asian American numbers as a proxy.

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https://americanaddictioncenters.org/addiction-statistics/asian-americans
[Asian Americans report lower rates of lifetime illicit drug use (27.6%) than Caucasian Americans (54.5%), African Americans (45.9%), and Hispanic Americans (37.7%).]