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Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St
Yes, most of us know why the US rebuilt their former enemies.
But the point was that the UK was left bankrupt in 1945, having spent its last shilling on helping to defend Europe (and elsewhere).
Unlike these modern-day, money-grubbing, expenses-fiddling Eurocrats, the U.K. didn't demand billions from our continental 'partners' for that expensive episode.
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Of course what is often forgotten is that America wrote off the lend lease debts, so that they could lend us money to rebuild, that was the loan we spent many years paying off.
Had they (the Americans) been greedy they could have claimed us as one of their colonies because we were worse than skint and they owned everything.