protect your interests

protect your interests
   aggressively to annex border states or territory
   The language of autocrats:
    He nearly succeeded in persuading his superiors to annex portions of Sinkiang... and then occupying territory to 'protect Russian interests'. (Dalrymple, 1989)

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