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Old Jul 21, 2007, 09:00 pm   #17 (permalink) (top)
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Marshal Plan was not about nation building, it was about creating markets for American goods. Russians called it "dollar diplomacy" and they weren't wrong at all.
Perhaps, but robust markets need robust nation-states; nation-states rebuilt with the help of the Marshall Plan.
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