Benefit Of Imperialism

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Is stealing something that don't belong ok or not? Stealing can be a good thing for the person taking the valuable but not for the person how’s got there stuff stolen. It is kind of like imperialism meaning a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. People imperialize for the military so they can have economic power and gain military bases. They also do it so they can acquire raw materials so they can make more new products. The raw materials were used to make products to trade and to increase economic power. The market after gaining raw materials and making the products to were able to sell them to their country or nation. When people wanted to imperialize they had to introduce religion so …show more content…

It may be true that imperialism can be considered stealing however imperialism does have some benefits and can be justifiable. For example in “Senator Redfield’s letter, on the Spanish Atrocities” which states, “To me the strongest appeal is not the barbarity practiced by Weyler, nor the loss of maine… but the spectacle of a million and a half people, the entire native population of cuba, struggling for freedom and deliverance from the worst misgovernment of which I had knowledge…”(Redfield, March 17, …show more content…

American imperialism is not favorable to the U.S. because of the military operations and economic conditions that makes the U.S. shores vulnerable to foreign attacks. While the U.S. spreads there troops around the world it causes economic conditions to become worse for the U.S. To illustrate the text in particular, “The Fatal Expense of American Imperialism” says “The cost of running these military operations and the wars they support is extraordinary, around $900 billion per year, or 5 percent of U.S. national income, when one adds the budget of the pentagon, the intelligences agencies, homeland security, nuclear weapons programs in the department of Energy, and veterans benefits” (Sachs D. Jeffory, October 30th, 2016). This means that the U.S. national income is being spent to help support intelligences agencies, homeland security, nuclear weapons programs in the department of Energy, and veterans benefits. The evidence shows that since the U.S. spends so much money to make the U.S. safer outside of its shores which in turn made economic conditions