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Originally Posted by deltav
You obviously have an agenda in making that claim, but it doesn't really reflect the realities of the Marshall Plan. While it probably wasn't the sole driver of European recovery that some folks claimed it was, it was a massive help in rebuilding infrastructure and leading towards economic/political stability in a time of huge transition.
Much of the funds were full-on grant subsidies, not to be repaid. The other actual loans were low-interest. Quality of life & stability in Western Europe increased dramatically. The USA obviously had some of their own selfish interests at stake in providing this aid, but any real student of postwar period history knows that it was a huge help and that the European landscape might have looked quite a bit different without it.
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the USA does nothing without an agenda that is in its economic favor and not in the favor of the other side, period...the loans were not critical to the recovery of europe at all but were nothing more than the good ole us "foreign aid corruption" that where primarily used self-servingly by select government officials...its how the US works...it does not let other countries develop freely , but either corrupts them or bombs them, as proof I offer the fact that the USA has dropped more bombs than hitler since WW2, fact is: the USA does not let others run their own governments and tires to have as much influence as possible...but you will hear US politicians using the democracy word with a str8 face every time LOL
my accusations are not only post war but during the war as well, the marshal plan is just a tiny bit of it, during the war the US "assisted" its allies with "aid" in a very exploitative way that had more to do with plain business interests than fighting evil...during WW2 and after the USA made bank like in no other time in its histrory and also gained global power as a result...