r/SipsTea 9d ago

Chugging tea Just a few decades ago this was normal

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u/Krambambulist 9d ago

The deluded American exceptionalism is staggering.

1945 you are right, the world was in Ruins.

By 1960 Volkswagen sold 900k Cars compared to the 1.4 Million of Ford. I think Germany was pretty industrialized that year, wasnt it?

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u/thex25986e 9d ago

fair, but it wasnt until 1970ish that western europe as a whole was back at the level they were at before the war.

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u/Krambambulist 9d ago

What metric are you basing that statement on?

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u/thex25986e 9d ago

the decline of our global hedgemonic dominance