Is communist China committing genocide against the United States?
Mounting accusations and some evidence point to Beijing not only killing Americans with illicit fentanyl, but doing so intentionally. Intentionality is a key ingredient to the legal definition of genocide.
The motive for the use of fentanyl, which 18 state attorneys general last year called a “weapon of mass destruction,” certainly exists.
The United States is the strongest bulwark against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) well-recognized goal of global hegemony. A weaker America through fewer Americans and mounting overdose health care costs of $1 trillion annually ease the CCP’s ascendancy.
There are two main elements of the U.N. definition of genocide germane to the allegation that the CCP is conducting chemical warfare against Americans through fentanyl poisoning.
Killing of Americans
First, is the CCP, in fact, killing Americans?
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that of over 107,000 annual overdose deaths in the United States, approximately 71,000 are from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. The CDC predicts this high rate of deaths to be relatively constant up to October 2022, the latest for which partial data is available.
According to CDC data, the number of fentanyl deaths has risen dramatically since 2016, plateauing between 2018 and 2020, with another rapid rise from 2020 to early 2022, then plateauing again at its current high annual rate. The increase in overdose deaths since 2015 is almost entirely driven by synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, and to a lesser extent by psychostimulants and cocaine, which is often adulterated by the cheaper fentanyl.
Two milligrams of fentanyl (equivalent in weight to as few as 10 grains of salt) can be lethal. Carfentanyl, which is as much as 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, can be lethal at just 0.02 milligrams, the equivalent of as little as one-tenth of a grain of salt.
Last year alone, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized 379 million potentially deadly doses of fentanyl, more than double the catch in 2021. This is more than enough to kill every American citizen.
In 2022, drug overdose became America’s leading source of death for ages 18 to 45, with fentanyl playing a leading role.
By Anders Corr
