• shawn1122@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    The US managed to horde 80% of global reserves of gold by selling weapons to allied nations during WW2.

    Being the greatest beneficiary of WW2 is a story that rarely gets told.

    I mean kudos is deserved for rapidly industrializing into a weapons manufacturing hotspot when the demand was skyrocketing but a lot of Americans are taught that US ascension post WW2 was entirely self determined which is brain rot level propoganda.