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This is just wrong.

The Marshall Plan was the smartest foreign policy decision the US ever made.

Turned enemies into allies and got the world acting in our interests without the overhead of running actual colonies.

The US was fine without an oversized influence on foreign countries and the burden of defending Western values and democracy. We accepted the empire given without thinking of the added responsibilities. Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran are those conflicts worth having a higher global influence? The standard of living is higher in the countries we protected in Western Europe than in our own country. It's a Pyrrhic victory. Without this 400 lb weight around our necks, America and its citizens would be in a better, more sustainable position.

Operation Paperclip sure was great at bringing a bunch of fascists to the US.

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