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‘The United States is the villain of our story.’ Nationalism surges in Mexico amid Trump threats (www.latimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

While making it illegal for US citizens to own large amounts of it, to boot