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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Philippine_Republic

How can the First Philippine Republic survive as an independent state that is not the puppet state of a bigger power? I figure if the Americans are taken out of the picture through maybe no Spanish-American War or maybe them just focusing more on Cuba, then the Germans would come but I doubt they could have taken the Islands so, they would have probably been driven away after a short fight.
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