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Sounds kind of like what certain world powers do with oil and mining these days.



That’s because nothing has changed except we learned that it is easier to manage regions if you dont annex them and instead let the nearest bystander run the country.

The people there accept it and it is cheaper and you still get the resources for all eternity, which is all you really wanted.




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