[Apes]

I really don't get what the point of your argument here is. It's such a bad comparison.

The US came out of WW2 with an amazing economy.

Also this isn't a war.

And your augment is openly self defeating, since it takes 5 seconds to find out that 3% of the world population died in WW2, and slightly more than a minute to find out that 12.7% of the Russian population died - only for them to become a world super power immediately after the end of the war.

Are you arguing for bringing the economy back online?