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In reply to the discussion: How did the U.S. reform cult-like, Fascist nations Japan and Germany after WWII? [View all]ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)35. Roughly 3% Of GDP!
After a war, with the cost of rebuilding, they had a burden of 3¢ out of every dollar!
Would be like the US having to pay over $60 billion a year for 10 years, and getting nothing back.
J.M. Keynes was vehemently opposed to the Versailles proposals, but not enough listened to him.
He predicted the economic outcomes accurately and he also predicted political chaos.
He didn't predict Nazism specifically, but he predicted the conditions that lead to it!
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How did the U.S. reform cult-like, Fascist nations Japan and Germany after WWII? [View all]
Yavin4
Nov 2020
OP
The US didn't reform Germany. Germany reformed Germany. Japan is a completely different culture.
Nitram
Nov 2020
#13
Bad history, Left inTX. France punished Germany so severely for WWI that they suffered severe
Nitram
Dec 2020
#30
That's been tried (and failed) on numerous occasions over many centuries. I'm assuming your
Nitram
Dec 2020
#31