Message from @thinkingguy
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this is some wewuzzery of epic constraints
Call it whatever you want
We needed money
We did not need money in WW1.
They said fight ww1 or no money
We entered ww1
The end
the UK still owed 225Bn of today's GBP to us in 1931, for example
lmao
we literally owned those niggas
The UK just recently finished paying US their WW2 Lend/Lease debts.
interest was nearly 50% of all government expenditure during the 20s for the UK
BRO BRIBERY
We cucked their world order out from under them on a boat in the North Atlantic when we told Churchill we'd save them in exchange for the planet. And he did it. And we have it. Bretton Woods? What do you think that was?
This is the same situation, mind you, with the various peninsular and Napoleonic wars
the UK crippled itself financing that conflict and all of it's continental allies
Napoleon sold the US Louisiana to pay for it
the US, at the time, got a loan from the Brits to purchase Louisiana
the UK knew in its heart it was over for them after the Boer War didn't go as planned.
here's the best part
*the Brits, technically, financed the French's own attempted Invasion*
by lending money to the US to give to the French
absolute ANCAP
For your information that's not a disputed fact. It's quite literally stated on Wikipedia
All historians agree on this
This is mainstream admitted historical record
post
your
sources
Wikipedia... ffs
Go to Wikipedia
Go to any site on the internet
You will findit
This is basic historical Information
see
You make an assertion like the US is a Crown Colony and you want me to do your fucking legwork during my workday?
I'm sitting here with the national debt chart
and it goes down from 1914-1918
considerably