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[โ€“] PopOfAfrica 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US became an economic superpower because all of the others had to rebuild from rubble after WW2.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Also by draining wealth from poorer countries. Banana Republics in Central America. The constant pro-american coups in South America. The plantations of Liberia that used essentially slave labor to harvest rubber.