US Post-WWII Advantage
Comments discuss how World War II left the US economically and industrially dominant as the only major power unscathed, benefiting from reconstruction loans and global rebuilding while Europe and others recovered.
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Was the US not better off after WW2?
Assuming you're talking about World War 2, the US not only went through that relatively unscathed, but also made a ton of money bankrolling the reconstruction of Europe, Russia and Japan. So yes, it's basically a US thing.
Are you claiming that WW2 didn't change the world?
Just like World War 2 resulted in victimization of Germans?
Are you talking about pre-WW2 or post-WW2?
if you ignore WW2 for some reason?
it’s not that the US wasn’t damaged by WW2, it’s that it hugely benefited
"Since WWII" is not the same thing as "always".
The US was the only major industrial nation not to be completely devastated in WWI and WWII. They/we benefitted from this enormously throughout the 20th century. It was only a matter of time before things normalized.
Thanks, interesting point on WWII and the difference in outcomes