What is Britain had not entered WWII

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We were in the process of standing the Phillipines up on their own. After conquering the place, we were doing what we refuse to do now in places like Iraq and Afghanistan -- suppressing an insurgency and then taking the decades needed to build up institutions and education for a state to stand up on its own. They were independent as of 1935 (though obviously the apron strings were still there).

The Phillipines already fought for their freedom against the colonial spanish rule and declared independance as the first philippine republic before Spain lost the US-Spanish war.
And instead of accepting that the independant republic rules it’s own country the US brutally conquered the place as if Spain could cede them a foreign country like a piece of property where in the Americas they established the Monroe doctrine that essentially meant that no european power should colonize any part of the Americas or return there once having left.

Ceding a colony would be normal after a lost war, however due to the picture that the US had in WW2 of itself as the defender of democracy and liberator from colonialism vs. the later evil Empire of Japan it has to be pointed out that they behaved no better than any other colonizing nation including death camps where in average 20% died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip...can_atrocities

And all for establishing a naval presence to protect their trade with China for the "open door" policy.
Just for comparison that would be like Japan conquering Canada from the possession of the British Empire and brutally establishing japanese rule there.