America is a country, a geographical area. The Federation of Republics owed who money? The French? The Russians?
Despite being geographically removed from the American scene, Russia under Catherine the Great significantly affected the American Revolution through diplomacy. While Catherine personally oversaw most of Russia's interactions with the new nation, she also entrusted certain tasks to her foreign advisor Nikita Ivanovich Panin, who often acted on Catherine's behalf when it came to matters of international diplomacy. Catherine and Panin interacted with the British government through James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury at the Russian court.[2] The decisions made by Catherine and Panin during the Revolution to remain officially neutral, refuse Britain's requests for military assistance, and insist on peace talks that linked a resolution of the American Revolution with the settlement of separate European conflicts indirectly helped the Americans win the Revolution and gain independence
Fuck the French.
National Debt, that's what keeps a country from Actual, True, freedom? How did that affect the freedom of Americans everywhere?