Read again, it's all in it.
When you colonize a country you use their resources and make business plans in that country like you own country, the conquered nation is more or less just like a state or a province of yours. when you do equal footing business with a country, you are equal business partners, it's not helping or being helped, it's common business practice which requires both parties to work together to make it successful.
In recent decades, US "helped" Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya... see how rich they are now