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Its usually a combination of the two...the first thing any empire does is gets the newly conquered to pay the invasion costs....in tribute..and taxes...eg..1895 France invades Madagascar..(kills maybe half a million people)..imposes heavy taxes to pay for cost of invasion.....when Napoleons armies were sent to reclaim Haiti from the former slaves...and were beaten..the French govt said that Haiti owed France 150 Million francs in damages for expropriated planatations and the costs of equipping a military force to get the island back (about $18 Billion in todays money)..and the USA and everyone else agreed an embargo on Haiti until it was paid....the IMF is how its done these days..with US/Nato firepower as backup..
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 09:29:41 +0000

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