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stefan_yesterday at 8:42 PM1 replyview on HN

The "principal anti-colonial pusher"? The first thing America did coming out of WW2 was support France, a nation just resoundingly beaten, in an utter colonial fumble on the other side of the planet.


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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 9:30 PM

> The "principal anti-colonial pusher"?

Yes. It was a major foreign policy issue for us.

> first thing America did coming out of WW2 was support France

Principal doesn't mean uncompromising. Just a main thrust. Britain was constrained in India, in part, by America.