Wiki says total amount repaid, inc. interest, was $7.5bn (£3.8bn) to the US and US$2bn (£1bn) to Canada. The loan was subject to conditions, the most damaging of which was the convertibility of sterling. Though not intentional, the effect was to worsen British post-war economic problems.
overall, the US provided far more than we ever gave back, and any final loan conditions were over many many years. For the whole duration of when we were fighting, we were just able to use the US industrial complex to provide weaponry
Coming from (what I now understand to be a conservative household) the whole "the world never paid us back for the costs we incurred during the war" has been simmering in Republican households since at least the 70s. There's a lot of filth spewing I heard more gentle variants of for decades.
And they gave us until 2006 to pay off the whole thing as well; this is hardly shitty draconian stuff. Johnson just took a snide shitty pop at every US president from the initiation of the lease through to George W Bush. Does he actually have any friends?
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