The basis for the Bretons Woods agreements was intentionally to integrate economically and treaties post WW1 and WW2 were intentionally to stop imperialism. Tha

The basis for the Bretons Woods agreements was intentionally to integrate economically and treaties post WW1 and WW2 were intentionally to stop imperialism. That was not the case before. Perhaps it occasionally has happened since but not at the scale beforehand and with plenty of roadblocks. It's like saying crime is rampant when one person commits one, it's hyperbole to say so.