V-E DAY: The Great Patriotic War ends with the surrender of Colonel-General Alfred J.F. Jodl to the allied armies at Reims, France; and of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel to the Soviet Red Army in Berlin, Germany.
This begins the U.s.’ ninth attempt at nation building.
NOTES:
- While “nation-building is a laudable goal, Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution for the united States says that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”; it does NOT state that “The United States shall guarantee to every nation on this planet a Republican Form of Government.” [emphasis added]
- From June 1939 to May 1945, the amount of Federal Reserve Notes (Bills of Credit) in circulation grew from 7,000,000,000 to 26,000,000,000 “dollars”—a 271% increase.
[updated 5/10/2025]
Subsequent Events:
References:
Doug Bandow, “Nation-Building’s Grim Record,” Orange County (California) Register, 25 April 2003, Local:7.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 361.
Separating Money and the State
www.marketskeptics.com/2015/10/separating-money-and-state.html
PolicyBrief#24 – Policybrief24.pdf
carnegieendowment.org/files/Policybrief24.pdf
Current U.s. National Debt:
