Mercouris says that many famous London financial institutions still visibly bear the wealth generated by the opium wars, even if modern Britain barely remembers that history.
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Mercouris says the wealth of major London financial institutions still carries the imprint of the opium wars, even if modern Britain scarcely remembers that origin.
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"That is very interesting. Can I just say, I live in London. I have here, I've lived here since the sixties. The symbols of..."
"financial institutions in London that are so famous to this day, I'm not going to name them, but you might see all the symbols..."
"But if you go back into their prehistory or their early history, you will find that a lot of it does come from that,..."
"...the meeting, Trump goes and meets with all the banks and financial institutions. And then they start constructing the 50 -year land deals and..."
"...Maduro owned a chunk of it, but it's like a few financial institutions and banks mainly insulated. It doesn't benefit the Venezuelan people, but..."
"...East Asian countries exploiting them. It's like, well, U.S. monopolies and financial institutions made an absolute killing through the investments they made in the..."
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