• PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The US became an economic superpower because all of the others had to rebuild from rubble after WW2.

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      Also by draining wealth from poorer countries. Banana Republics in Central America. The constant pro-american coups in South America. The plantations of Liberia that used essentially slave labor to harvest rubber.