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That's because the US allowed Europe to do social spending instead of military spending in order to keep them from going Communist. And anyway, the result was a
by pessimizer 4y ago
That's because the US allowed Europe to do social spending instead of military spending in order to keep them from going Communist. And anyway, the result was a monstrously armed US and a defenseless Europe, so it was ultimately a win-win for America.
- rnk 4y agoThe US wanted to block communism for sure but we aren't organized enough to do subtle things in Europe. We didn't "let you" choose social safety nets over military spending, I say that in part because I've been hearing about insufficient euro military spending for many years. We must have advocated for block commies and military spending. ;-) The US must have tried to suppress communist parties in Italy etc after ww2, probably did terrible things.