As i read through this, it sounded like America and possibly other nations “stepped” on under developed nations in order to continue it’s growth. The article also stated that we and other developed nations became what we were because we were settled as opposed to being used for resources. It seems as though other nations that were also inhabited may have had similar opportunities to develop. The fact that we have gone to other countries and extracted their resources sounds like they had value in the natural resources of their lands, but possibly through bad decision making on part of the governments in their countries, have ended up on the worse end of the deal.