| Kasz216 said: I think in general it shows war is great for your economy... if that war can be used to wipe out of all your major competitors infrastructure while greatly causing an expansion in "free" trade at the end of the war. Which is always another weird contradiction... Republicans like to pretend "American Exceptionalism" is what propelled the US to Superpower status, while Democrats tend to point to the desruction of europe as taking out all our competitors leaving the US as major exporters of... almost everything. |
Well, that's an argument that we'd never know the answer to, as we have no way of knowing what would have happened to the world without WWII. Obviously, America's economic policies would have led to it growing to a massive economic power, anyway.. whether it would have had the same dominance, I don't know, but the world on the whole would be much wealthier.
Which again poses another contradiction of the left: being all for the poorest, yet engaging in policies that actually harm the world's poorest (protectionism, mainly)
