Not a historian, but from the top of my head: driving back Germany from having too much power in Europe, assisting the British allies and/or preventing the soviets from conquering too much of Germany and turning it “socialist”.
Do you think the US entered a war, because Hitler was a bad guy? O.o
So what I’m getting from this definition is that any military action across a national border for any reason other than, i guess, pure moral altruistim, is imperialism. Is that the conclusion you mean to build to?
They were done for imperialist reasons, yes.
What’s your point? I didn’t make a moralist statement about imperialism.
What were the imperialist reasons?
Not a historian, but from the top of my head: driving back Germany from having too much power in Europe, assisting the British allies and/or preventing the soviets from conquering too much of Germany and turning it “socialist”.
Do you think the US entered a war, because Hitler was a bad guy? O.o
So what I’m getting from this definition is that any military action across a national border for any reason other than, i guess, pure moral altruistim, is imperialism. Is that the conclusion you mean to build to?
States don’t do altruism in a world of states that compete against each other.
Yeah I agree. So does that make all military conflict that crosses a national border imperialism or does it not?