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The policies of imperialism and colonialism by white nations, better known as the west, have been an enormous problem and a cause of consistent destabilization. These policies have been enacted based on western interests, primarily understood as the profit margin. Usually, these interests have involved extracting natural resources in other lands that can create income for businesses in western countries. The maintenance of western interests has come at a high cost for the countries western nations have “interests” in. Millions have died in those countries because of western interest in what they could extract. Western governments have gone so far as to use military force to install governments that would be friendly to western corporate interests. Here is one example.