• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    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

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      2 hours ago

      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.

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      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.