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Originally Posted by RN7
But didn't America bail them out of two world wars and give them over $2 billion as part of the Marshall Plan after WW2.
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Well, think of it this way:
Someone asks to borrow $1 million from you. It's most of what you have, but you do it. A few weeks later, the guy tells you he'll never be able to pay you back. You go bankrupt as a result.
A hundred years later, your great-great-great-whatever grandson receives a visitor. He's here to pay back the million, plus interest. It will be good for your descendant, but it doesn't help you any.
The French at the time of the Revolutionary War had no conception that one day they'd be conquered and would need US help to get out of it; America was a pipsqueak little country at the time.