Since Trump took office in January, hurling insults and threatening devastating tariffs and U.S. drone strikes, Mexico has been seized by a nationalistic fervor.
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.
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.
While making it illegal for US citizens to own large amounts of it, to boot