Is There a Benefit From Empire?

There was clear material interest for countries in the global north to forcibly open these countries ot and to be able to extract from them a absolutely, absolutely, but one sheet empowered a kind o vicious version of finance capital. That's way you can run wild. It also pretty much definitively answers that question, doesn't it, as to whether or not there were any benefits from empire? We need to start thinking about what happened in ganerin jamaica, in iran, in singapor and all these other former parts of the british empire in the twentieth century as key parts of understanding our current political economic existence.