Manifest Destiny in the Philippines

The Philippines is at the doorstep of china. The coribian and central america represent places that you can extract resources, including bananas. And all these places are then hungrily looked at by the banks as places where they can expand America's financial system. But in each case there are already people who have their own ideas of how they want to live their lives. This is when marines need to come in and use force to kill enough of them so that other big dreamers d and greedy capitalists can get their way.