It's the same colonial model, with the same type of results - exploitation of humans and natural resources in a country that can't fight back due to governmental capture or the collaboration of its bourgeoisie. It's pretty well documented, even wikipedia has artciles that didn't get liberalwashed on it.

To speak about more or less exploitative in this context doesn't really make sense. They're all part of the same system. Just because one country plays "bad cop" and the other "good cop" doesn't change the fact that they're working together to further the same goal, of exploitation, resource extraction and unequal trade. European social democracy relies on the brute strength of American imperialism to clear the way and maintain the global system in which they operate.