• sartalon@lemmy.world
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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.

    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.