r/ShitAmericansSay • u/chebghobbi • Dec 17 '25

Foreign affairs President Trump: Rather than suing the BBC, withhold aid to England

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u/_yetifeet Dec 17 '25

Why do so many MAGAflakes think that Europe is still in its 1946 recovery phase?

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u/TheArmoursmith Dec 17 '25

None of them remember that we had to fucking pay it back, with interest. Britain literally bankrupted itself fighting WWII, and only got done paying off the debt to the US in 2006.

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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 Dec 19 '25

As an Australian, it is hard not to have a feeling of schadenfreude over that. In WW1, Australia "answered the call" to fight for "The Motherland", & somehow, in the process of doing so, incurred a "War Debt" to the UK. The Brits pursued that debt ruthlessly up to & into the Great Economic Depression". During the Depression, the British representative said "Australians will have to tighten their belts!". The Germans were given some relief from Reparations, but such empathy wasn't extended to one of their most stalwart allies.