Although Germany has yet to pay off its debt for World War II- having made on ly about half a billion dollars in payments to the allies it expects Russia to pay the cost for rebuilding Ukraine. Russia of course relocated lots of German factories to Russia after the war to help rebuild it nation devastated by the Nazis, yet the Soviet Union forgave Japan’s war debt and Russia had continued to make payments to the United States for it’s lend-lease war aid until quite recently. One might expect Ukraine to be making payments to the U.S.A. and Germany for centuries. England is still making small payments to the U.S.A. for its lend-lease W.W.II assistance.
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-russia-must-pay-for-what-they-destroyed-says-germany/a-66009211
After the disastrous demand for large reparations following W.W. I that helped stimulate commencement of W.W. II U.S. leadership learned that making friends and giving good terms to defeated foes was a better policy.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/dawes
Today in the Ukraine proxy war that is paying off; Germany and Japan- the main W.W. II enemies of the U.S.A. have banded together with the U.S.A. to war on our main W.W. II ally in terms of human cost for resisting NAZI Germany, Russia/the Soviet Russia. Maybe there is something to learn from that in-itself.
https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/18/who-still-owes-what-for-the-two-world-wars.html
Germany’s war debt was marked down from the estimated cost of 320 billion dollars to just 3 billion and they actually paid about half a billion. In the Marshall plan the U.S. actually contributed nearly 1.4 billion dollars to rebuild Germany. The plan spent about 13 billion dollars to rebuild Western Europe from the German destruction.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1227834/distribution-marshall-plan-by-country/
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-us-antonov-blinken-reparations-ukraine-war-1808439
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