Chine USA, Opium Wars – Fentanyl Wars

Today, with fentanyl, it is China that plays the role of the villain in the war on drugs against the Anglo-Saxons: China is the world’s leading producer of chemical precursors to this drug, much more powerful and addictive than heroin. These precursors are then exported to Mexico where drug cartels transform them into fentanyl. This synthetic opioid, very cheap, is then sold in the streets of American cities where it wreaks havoc.

Hence the current Trump war: in January 2025, Trump signed an executive order classifying several cartels (including the Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa cartel, and the Cartel de los Soles) as foreign terrorist organizations. Now, we are witnessing the deployment of the US military to target cartels in Latin America. Strikes have already taken place, such as the attacks on Venezuelan ships in September 2025. Seven warships were deployed to the Caribbean to intercept drug trafficking, with a doctrine of direct force (air strikes, raids). Trump has demanded the death penalty against drug traffickers.

But in the 19th century, it was the English, in collaboration with a Jewish cartel led in Baghdad by David Sassoon, who imposed the opening of Chinese borders to opium.

David Sassoon, born in October 1792 in Baghdad and died on November 7, 1864, in Pune (India)

A tit for tat, so to speak. In any case, it seems that drug trafficking is part of the geopolitics of the great powers. Who knows if tomorrow Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle will not be Chinese concessions?

In this perspective, we give below a translation of an article by Gian Pio Mattogno on David Sassoon and the opium war. The most difficult thing to understand in this article is that during the two opium wars, one in 1839 and the other in 1856, the Anglo-Saxons were fighting not against drug trafficking, but in favor. Drug trafficking is good or evil only based on your strategic interests.

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Gian Pio Mattogno : Portrait of a “good man”

THE JEWISH DRUG TRAFFICKER DAVID SASSOON … AND FAMILY

On Bet Magazine Mosaico (mosaic-cem.it), the official website of the Jewish community of Milan, we read that in the 19th century, the Jews of Baghdad considered themselves as the Jewish elite of the Middle East and that the Sassoon, with their trade of gold, silk, spices and wool, had become the richest merchants in Baghdad.

However, they could have their “reversal of fortune”.

”Historically, the Sassoon have been heavily affected by the ban on the opium trade, which has led them to diversify their portfolios into buying land, real estate, factories and banks.

But what precisely were these “setbacks” and what was the origin of the “fortune”?

What Bet Magazine Mosaico strives to modestly hide, the Centro Studi Malfatti unambiguously exposes.

One of the oldest Jewish families in the world. In the 16th century, the Sassoons settled in Baghdad, where, towards the end of the First World War, they were among the protagonists of the formation of the Iraqi state, whose prime minister of finance was … Eskell Sassoon, a position he held throughout seven consecutive governments.

‘In the first half of the 19th century, Sir Eskell’s grandfather, David Sassoon, founded the Bank David Sassoon & Co. in Bombay. David’s brother, Albert Abdallah David Sassoon, was made a baron by Queen Victoria for his considerable gains to the Crown of England in 1890.

On his merits, David obtained from the Bank of England a monopoly in India for the exploitation of cotton, silk, and opium. Between 1830 and 1831, David sold 18,956 cases of opium.

‘The opium monopoly was extended to China and Japan.

In 1839, the Chinese emperor Dao Guang forbade the consumption and trade of this substance; thousands of boxes of drugs just out of the laboratories of Canton of the family Sassoon are destroyed.

Immediately, the Sassoons turned to the British for help, it is the beginning of the first opium war, it will end after three years with the legalization of drugs in China, the sovereignty of England over certain coastal areas of the country, a compensation of two million pounds for the Sassoons, the full compensation of war expenses to the British, for an amount of 21 million pounds. This is what we call being cuckolded and beaten.

The drug traffickers of Sassoon having a monopoly on opium only for coastal areas, a second bloody war was waged to ensure the extension of this monopoly, it takes place from 1858 to 1860 and offers the Sassoons a monopoly on the drug trade over seven-eighths of China, while the British Crown takes advantage of it to rule over Hong Kong and other strategic areas.

The Russell & Co, founded by the brother-in-law of William Huntington, Russell, co-founder of the controversial secret society Skull & Bones, was responsible for transporting opium from India to China and returning Chinese tea for the Sassoon.

In 1887, Edward Albert Sassoon married Caroline Rothschild, thus confirming the economic alliance between the two families. ... (La famille Sassoon, centrostudimalfatti.eu. Cf. ANGLIA JUDAICA: Les Juifs et l’impérialisme britannique au XIXe siècle, andreacarancini.it).

The modesty of Bet Magazine Mosaico towards the Sassoon (but also towards other dignitaries of the international Jewish community, such as slave traders) is not new.

Thus, in the early 20th century, the authoritative Jewish Encyclopedia wrote that the firm of David Sassoon and Co. had branches in Calcutta, Shanghai, Canton, and Hong Kong, and that its affairs “included a monopoly on the opium trade”, but she did not devote a single word to the opium wars and the unspeakable sufferings endured by the Chinese people at the hands of the Sassoon.

On the contrary, we see the Encyclopedia spreading praise of the merits of the Sassoon, their “benevolence,” their promotion of education, their gifts, etc., etc., in short, of their proverbial “philanthropy” (Sassoon, in “The Jewish Encyclopedia,” vol. 11, pp. 66-68).

A few years earlier, “Il Novelliere Israelitico” (year I, n° 7, 15 July 1889, p. 38) had published the following portrait of the Sassoon family:

They write from London that the Shah of Persia, during his stay in this metropolis, had the opportunity to strain his body, as well as to develop his mind.

The highlight of the festivities was an evening given on 4 July in his honour by Sir David Sassoon.

Sir Albert Sassoon, like his brother Ruben, is vice-president of the Anglo Jewish Association which, as we know, has the same program and develops its philanthropic and charitable activity in collaboration with the Israelite Alliance. For the rental of the room where the festival was held in honor of the Shah; Sir Albert paid £500, and all the highest English aristocracy participated.

The Sassoon family must have been particularly honored by the visit of the Shah since it was in Baghdad that the founder of the house, David Sassoon, was born and his business prospered.

David Sassoon was one of the noblest figures in Judaism; as a true Israelite, he sowed good wherever he went and is entitled to the gratitude of all Israelite hearts. [in footnote: “The biography and portrait of this good man are to be found in the 1868 Israelitico Annuario compiled by the director of Corriere Israelitico].

He left two million pounds to his six children.

They then founded new banking and trading houses in Bombay, China and London, and through their scrupulous honesty, as well as the greatest enterprise spirit, they increased their already colossal fortune and achieved eminent social positions.

The Sassoon family of London belongs to the Portuguese community; it deals with unparalleled zeal in Jewish affairs and all its members faithfully perform religious practices.

One of the brothers, Mr. Arturo Sassoon, married Miss Perugia from Trieste, and a son of Sir Albert married the daughter of Baron Gustavo de Rothschild two years ago, a marriage about which our Corriere spoke at the time.

In 1873, Sir Albert Sassoon, now 72 years old, was made an honorary member of the City of London and the following year he was knighted by the Queen.

The portrait of David Sassoon, nicknamed the Israelite Romantic, had appeared on the Israelite Directory for the year of V. E. 1868. Published by A. di S. Curiel Editor of “Corriere Israelitico”, Anno Primo, Trieste, 1868, pp. 82-92, signed: B. Artom.

In the face of such praising, don’t you dare to say that this noble and innocent Jewish soul was in reality nothing more than a ruthless drug trafficker who made enormous profits at the expense of the Chinese people, you vile antisemite!

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