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> US got strong by screwing over its allies

The biggest empire in the world paid for the US to re-tool its economy to produce arms for them. Later on the USA provided loans to continue that expansion.

Then Japan entered the war and it got personal.

Sure bretton-woods was a humiliation, but the Marshall plan was there to stop those humiliated allies from going communist.



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