I've been reading a lot of timelines in this forum even before I joined. One of the most common trends I saw in them is that the Philippines is always being passed on from one colonial power to another (with a lot of people being slaughtered in the process). There are other scenarios where the Philippines gets nuked for being an American puppet/ally, or being balkanized, among other bad things.
With this in mind, I thought. Is the Philippines really destined to be screwed in almost every alternate timelines, at least theoretically?