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[–] toad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ah yes and I guess the UK colonized India to civilise them, out of sheer charity? "Open new market" = force them to use the colonizers services and industry. Quit being fucking naive. Hell the US is still forcing us to buy their shitty planes. The US killed left-wing politicians. The US empowered nazis in intelligence services so we wouldn't grow too close to the USSR.

Of course the US should foot the bill. In kind. They certainly shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Iran nor anywhere else they destroyed.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More gish-gallop.

„Opening a new market” in this case means funding and rebuilding an otherwise war obliterated continent with next to no means of housing or feeding its people; or are you seriously arguing that they should have just left it all to the Soviet army to rape, pillage and plunder like they did to Eastern Europe?

I’m not being naive, you’re just being obstinate.

The US is capable of some vehemently abhorrent action, but the Marshall Plan was not one of them.

Of course the US should foot the bill. In kind. They certainly shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Iran nor anywhere else they destroyed.

Finally we can agree on something.

[–] toad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea my french grandma told me what the GIs did to her city at "liberation". Quit eating propaganda. You guys pillaged and plundered just as much as them.

The marshall plan was a colonisation plan and we still live under it. Belgium also spent shitload of money to "develop" congo.

Of course the US should foot the bill. In kind. They certainly shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near Iran nor anywhere else they destroyed.

And that's also worthy for afghanistan

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

..and mine told me exactly what the Red Army did to hers, while guaranteeing you her experience was worse.

You can continue to call the Marshall Plan „colonisation” all you want, but doing so doesn’t make it so.

Either way, as much fun as this back and forth has been - it’s 1am here and bed is calling.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your day, wherever you are.