The repayment is that we took over the defense of Europe and basically eliminated the pre-war European powers as global competitors. This gives us tremendous le

The repayment is that we took over the defense of Europe and basically eliminated the pre-war European powers as global competitors. This gives us tremendous leverage to do whatever the fuck we want either unilaterally or by coercing our European client-states to act on our behalf. Europe deciding to light itself on fire twice in the last century is the best thing that ever happened to America.