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Understandable, we should pay up (lemmy.world)
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[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They aren't? They are talking about a loan which has nothing to do with indemnity / reparations.

They financed the US independence movement / war out of self interest to screw on England and any way they got paid with the Quasi-War.

Looking at history the US were never a reliable partnet, cough remember the maine cough.