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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I agree the piece is a bit pompous, but the point isn't overreaching. We clearly did take an awful lot from an awful lot of nations after WWII.
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To be more concrete, when we gave Great Britain 50 Lend-Lease destroyers in 1940 (their "darkest hour"), we extracted from them the rights to military bases on British-controlled soil all over the place.
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