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.
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