Of course war is profitable--- always has been, still is. For the victors that is. There's even a profit in re-building the country that was conquered, not to mention the fact that the victor can claim the resources of the vanquished as theirs by a sort of right of conquest. Whilst Newfoundland was enjoying the spoils of war Poland was having a dreadful time, as was France, Holland, and Russia, even Britain, followed by most of the rest of the world. The generosity shown by the American people to not only their allies but also to the defeated enemy was remarkable (and possibly now forgotten) but the resulting extra production and resources gained helped enable the economy of the US to become the giant it has.

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