• Spaniard@lemmy.world
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    10 hours 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.