Re: mafia shakedown

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:25:28 GMT, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news>
wrote:

You do know that the Marshall Plan was designed to ensure
America got something back, right?

Please, cite your source
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Belgian economic historian Herman Van der Wee concludes the Marshall
Plan was a "great success":

    It gave a new impetus to reconstruction in Western Europe and made
a decisive contribution to the renewal of the transport system, the
modernization of industrial and agricultural equipment, the resumption
of normal production, the raising of productivity, and the
facilitating of intra-European trade.[27]
...
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A common American interpretation of the program's role in European
recovery was expressed by Paul Hoffman, head of the Economic
Cooperation Administration, in 1949 when he told Congress Marshall aid
had provided the "critical margin" on which other investment needed
for European recovery depended.[25] The Marshall Plan was one of the
first elements of European integration, as it erased trade barriers
and set up institutions to coordinate the economy on a continental
level--that is, it stimulated the total political reconstruction of
Western Europe.[26]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan