The U.S. and Neocolonialism

At first, not really knowing what neocolonialism meant I had to look it up, and found out that it’s “the economic and political policies by which a great power indirectly maintains or extends its influence over other areas or people”. So basically, in a language more familiar to me, it’s when a rich and powerful country (like the U.S. or England) sees something appealing, or something that could be of use and bring profit, in another, disadvantaged, way less powerful and wealthy country (like Jamaica or the countries in Central America). It’s not something that I have learned about a lot in school, which I think might be for a reason, since U.S. seems to like to neocolonize other countries. I think that U.S. getting involved in other counties can be good, but only if the intensions of that involvement are pure and will save lives and will overall make the life of the residents of the other country better off than what they were before U.S. invaded. And I think that the U.S. invading other countries is a totally bad and abusive idea when it does so to gain more wealth for the country at the expense of others, doesn’t respect the residents and how our actions will affect the quality of their living, and to use that other country as a puppet in order to gain more power for U.S. in the world. Sadly, the second scenario seems to be the more frequent one so at this point in time I would have to say that U.S. getting involved with other countries’ business shouldn’t happen and that I am against it.