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Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The parallels between the opium crisis in China and the fentanyl crisis in the U.S.

Looks like the Chinese learned a lot from the British.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

China's contribution to the fentanyl crisis is pretty limited to not being willing to invest the resources into investigating and suppressing illicit production in China, not forming a policy of export of fentanyl with the intention of getting the recipient population addicted to acquire a reliably-demanded good to rectify trade imbalances.