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The Marshall Plan merely accelerated the recovery, serving as seed money for a lot of investment (among other goals). Even without such help, the conditions for
by userulluipeste 3mo ago
The Marshall Plan merely accelerated the recovery, serving as seed money for a lot of investment (among other goals). Even without such help, the conditions for recovery were there. (I also like to think that the same conditions are still present nowadays, and the help you mention won't not play an essential role for anything. But, in case I'm wrong, i.e. if the conditions may not be there any more, then I very much doubt that financial help will count for anything.)
- red-iron-pine 3mo agoyeah the seeds were there for sure -- they countries that were rebuilt were already the major empires. you're not creating a new society from whole cloth, you're taking already battered Big Dogs and getting them back to being Big again (minus the, you know, Nazis and bad actors). but they were already societies that had cutting edge tech and made serious end-runs at taking over the world. South Korea would be the only real example of where you took the poor agrarian area and eventually grew it into an asian tiger.