Ironic claim on your part. Check out the history of the LOANS given to rebuild Europe. That’s the “scoop up” to put it simply.
Governments were then beholden to the loan givers to rebuild; those loans weren’t charity. They were very ADVANTAGEOUS to the USA. American companies and the banks that own them bought everything for the bottom dollar and used that to strong-arm the rest of planet earth into compliance in many ways for decades. The effects can still be seen and felt today. Not even going into the UN, NATO, the IMF, the World Bank, and so on.
It’s multilayered and incontrovertible. Check it out, my angry befuddled friend
What!? Banks gave out loans so people could rebuild? Even after the lend lease program?
Countries must have been devastated and then had to swear fealty to America as a result.
Checks note
Number of countries that have to do what the U.S. tells them: zero.
Let me do the most basic of research…
From Wikipedia:
"The U.S. rebuilt Europe after WWII primarily through the
Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program, 1948–1951), providing over $13 billion (approx. $150+ billion in 2017 dollars) in aid to 16 Western European nations. The assistance was mostly grants (~90%), not loans, designed to rebuild infrastructure, boost industrial production, and curb communist influence."
I guess your fantasy is just that, a fantasy.
The only pull the U.S. has is the that the plutocrats in their own countries stand to make money too.
Global trade is mutually beneficial and isn’t “scooping up”, in any sense of the phrase, and is in no way taking advantage of people unless the terms were terrible for one of the parties, which none of them were.
The military presence across the work was a result of the cold war. And the European powers we.more than happy to let the U.S. foot the bill, for fighting the “red scare”.
The defense contracts are a result of the U.S.'s military industrial complex, that even Eisenhower warned the U.S. against.
Most of what is wrong with the U.S…can be pointed at Capitalism.
You are not wrong to invoke WWII when discussing the U.S. becoming a hedeminy, but they were already a super power. As a nation, no one was producing more than the U.S.
After WWII, the U.S.'s industrial base was virtually untouched and had no real competition. (Mao and Stalin were great at getting into power and destroying any political opposition, but they were fucking retarded when it came to running a country.)
The U.S. however became the main producer of the world and so wealth was just flowing in.
But without proper controls, capitalism just becomes a plutocracy which is evident here.
Any controls that were put into place were slowly eroded and now, with the weaponization of data, it is a lot easier to control an uneducated working class.
But now the U.S. has moved all its industry overseas and the plutocrats, that have been sucking every ounce of wealth they can, out of the economy have neutered its ability to pivot and evolve.
The fascism in the U.S. right now is probably closer to Mussolini’s version than Hitler’s, but it’s still a cultural rot that needs to be purged.
You can’t just point your finger at things you don’t like and say they did this and just shoot from the hip as to why.
You HAVE to understand how these things develop, and see how they are not some evil that manifests in a vacuum.
Just because someone is shit now, doesn’t mean they were always shit.
But also, no one is clean or pure at this point. Everyone has shit in their history, so using that to justify how you feel today is kind of dumb. Just focus on the actions now. There’s plenty to hate on, but use history to learn how these things evolve. And to do that, you actually have to have an accurate (to some extent) idea of went down.
“Scooping everything up” after WWII doesn’t even make sense in any way, to describe how anything happened in the initial years following WWII.
I’m sorry, what exactly did they scoop up after WWII?
This comment demonstrate’s a complete ignorance of what actually happened before, during, and after WWII.
I am not trying to defend the U.S. here, but this comment is particularly stupid.
Either you are a total fucking moron, or deliberately espousing false information for a purpose.
Ironic claim on your part. Check out the history of the LOANS given to rebuild Europe. That’s the “scoop up” to put it simply.
Governments were then beholden to the loan givers to rebuild; those loans weren’t charity. They were very ADVANTAGEOUS to the USA. American companies and the banks that own them bought everything for the bottom dollar and used that to strong-arm the rest of planet earth into compliance in many ways for decades. The effects can still be seen and felt today. Not even going into the UN, NATO, the IMF, the World Bank, and so on.
It’s multilayered and incontrovertible. Check it out, my angry befuddled friend
OR provide me with “true information”. Good luck
What!? Banks gave out loans so people could rebuild? Even after the lend lease program?
Countries must have been devastated and then had to swear fealty to America as a result.
Checks note
Number of countries that have to do what the U.S. tells them: zero.
Let me do the most basic of research…
From Wikipedia:
"The U.S. rebuilt Europe after WWII primarily through the
Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program, 1948–1951), providing over $13 billion (approx. $150+ billion in 2017 dollars) in aid to 16 Western European nations. The assistance was mostly grants (~90%), not loans, designed to rebuild infrastructure, boost industrial production, and curb communist influence."
I guess your fantasy is just that, a fantasy.
The only pull the U.S. has is the that the plutocrats in their own countries stand to make money too.
Global trade? Military bases all over the world? Defense contracts?
Global trade is mutually beneficial and isn’t “scooping up”, in any sense of the phrase, and is in no way taking advantage of people unless the terms were terrible for one of the parties, which none of them were.
The military presence across the work was a result of the cold war. And the European powers we.more than happy to let the U.S. foot the bill, for fighting the “red scare”.
The defense contracts are a result of the U.S.'s military industrial complex, that even Eisenhower warned the U.S. against.
Most of what is wrong with the U.S…can be pointed at Capitalism.
You are not wrong to invoke WWII when discussing the U.S. becoming a hedeminy, but they were already a super power. As a nation, no one was producing more than the U.S.
After WWII, the U.S.'s industrial base was virtually untouched and had no real competition. (Mao and Stalin were great at getting into power and destroying any political opposition, but they were fucking retarded when it came to running a country.)
The U.S. however became the main producer of the world and so wealth was just flowing in.
But without proper controls, capitalism just becomes a plutocracy which is evident here.
Any controls that were put into place were slowly eroded and now, with the weaponization of data, it is a lot easier to control an uneducated working class.
But now the U.S. has moved all its industry overseas and the plutocrats, that have been sucking every ounce of wealth they can, out of the economy have neutered its ability to pivot and evolve.
The fascism in the U.S. right now is probably closer to Mussolini’s version than Hitler’s, but it’s still a cultural rot that needs to be purged.
You can’t just point your finger at things you don’t like and say they did this and just shoot from the hip as to why.
You HAVE to understand how these things develop, and see how they are not some evil that manifests in a vacuum.
Just because someone is shit now, doesn’t mean they were always shit.
But also, no one is clean or pure at this point. Everyone has shit in their history, so using that to justify how you feel today is kind of dumb. Just focus on the actions now. There’s plenty to hate on, but use history to learn how these things evolve. And to do that, you actually have to have an accurate (to some extent) idea of went down.
“Scooping everything up” after WWII doesn’t even make sense in any way, to describe how anything happened in the initial years following WWII.
And German scientists, too
Have you read a comment like it since a long time?