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...well.
Debasing your currency, thus increasing market prices (#inflation) while concurrently devaluating your currency, thus reducing a state's debt in real terms is a tradition that is many centuries old.
The problem with external debt is, however, that if your debts are in another currency, the printing press will not greatly diminish your indebtedness...