Is stealing Ok even if a country does it? Imperialism means a stronger country taking over a weaker country for resources. MAINE stands for things a country does to imperialize like, the M stands for military, military is when a country gets land to make bases, A stands for acquire resources, when the U.S imperlizes to acquire resources the U.S takes the resources from where it imperlizes, I stands for Introduce Religion, When the U.S does that it tries to ¨tame¨ people who have different traditions, N stands for Nationality, when the U.S imperlizes for nationality it wants to be seen as powerful, and E stands for expansion, when the U.S imperializes for expansion it does this to get more land for resources. American Imperialism is not justifiable