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That's whatan empire is you extract wealth. Sometimes through directly taking it other times through tribute. This is how everyone from the akkadians to the Brits operated. The only thing the Euros did different was scale. Due to extreme tech disparity it's still just conquest.

Honestly all colonialism was is a particularly lopsided conquest. Human beings wage wars of conquest as a matter of course. Hell the one and only reason it isn't still publically done is nukes. Even then both China and Russia are actively if quitley conquering.

Yes but I come ttoy conclusion based in Historical knowledge not heinlins work.

These places need to be allowed that violence. This is how society's advance it's not like Europe just had the enlightment. It was preceeded by millennia of warfare and destruction. People as a group cannot be taught to he civilized. They must come to this conclusion on thier own through blood...

In my personal opinion there is no real nuance. "Morality" us irrelevant in the context of states. All that honestly matters is I'm string and your not. Harsh maybe but true as far as I can see historically.