annexation
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But even a hypothetical mass annexation has a way of setting off a frenzy.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026
A top UN official has warned that these amount to "gradual, de facto annexation."
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
Bond strategists say the market isn’t pricing an extreme outcome for Greenland, meaning it doesn’t expect annexation by the U.S. or a military invasion.
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that a forcible U.S. annexation of an ally’s territory would be the end of NATO.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
Hence when Japan sent troops to Korea and annexed it in 1910, Japanese military leaders celebrated the annexation as “the restoration of the legitimate arrangement of antiquity.”
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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Political Geography - High School
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