"Checkmate" is a loss. Surrender. What Germany had to do.. twice.
Reparation is a derivative of the word "repair."
If you want to consider losing two world wars in two decades a super power, that's on you.
Which is why i stated Germany was a super power in the early 20th Century. You asked for an example of a super power collapsing due to hyper-inflation, I check-mated you with The Weimar Republic...
Now clear up this chicken-egg paradox and admit to us exactly why the Weimar Republic had to pay reparations.
No problem, I've been taking your as5 to school on topics such as Civics, philosophy, and why Democracy = Tyranny.....might as well give you a history lesson as well:
* Emperor Wilhelm II and the Reich decided to suspend the gold standard (echos Nixon taking the US off the gold standard)
* Germany decided to fund the war via debt (echos our stimulus packages)
* Germany services reparations debt by printing more Papiersmarks ( echos our printing more dollars to service debt)
* The Papiersmark suffers hyper inflation (this will be our situation with the dollar)
* Germany ushers in a new currency the Reichsmark to replace the Papiersmark(will we usher in the 'Amero'? Time will tell)