While I can appreciate your argument, the difference between WW2 is that the US was able to do that because it stayed out of the War for 2 years and even after Pearl Harbour it's domestic infrastructure wasn't touched by the war. Comparing that to a virus which has clearly affected China, as well as the rest of the world, is where the comparison falls down a bit..
So we're just lying now. COVID has not affected China anywhere close to other major countries. A benefit of a dictatorship, you could say.
The reason the US benefited so much from the war wasn't that all the European economies where destroyed, it was because it loaned weapons and equipment to the countries that were engaged in the war, loans which needed to be repaid after the war in terms that the US dictated.
This is patently false. The repayment of those loans are still being repaid to this day (some only recently paid off, such as the UK) and did not, at all, result in the US' quick rise to hegemony.
It literally was because they were destroyed. American industry is what rebuilt Europe. Europe as a continent were the powerhouse of the world, a powerhouse that disappeared and was replaced by an opportunistic US. FFS, the cost of those weapons were a blip. You realise that? During a war, cost of manufacturing accounts for a lot less than you think. In a state of total-war, the cost of production is essentially waived. The US did not benefit in any significant way, monetarily, from the direct repayment of distribution of weapons to foreign allies. It was literally the cost of doing business, "the business' being the process of being a world power. The manufacturing industry booming from the pure task of manufacturing was worth more than the product they were making. The same intact manufacturing base that was still working while every other major power's was destroy. We literally see this today in China's construction sector. The government will finance billions-worth of useless construction projects where construction is not needed, because the millions of people having a job is more important than the money China puts into the sector.
Supplying weapons to European allies was to keep them in the fight long enough that they wouldn't get conquered by an unfriendly state. An unfriendly state is a lot less likely to do trade with you.
Why do you think the US made it a requirement that the UK dismantle its empire in return for aid...The US didn't want a powerful empirical UK bouncing back after the war and retaking its position as world power. It's not because the US cared about democracy and freedom of the UK's subjects,
Am not suggesting that China is not aiming to do what you have stated I just don't see the evidence that they are using this virus to do it
They exacerbated the spread of COVID in the early days.
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