annexation

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But even a hypothetical mass annexation has a way of setting off a frenzy.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

What’s Next: Strategists aren’t willing to rule it out entirely, but they see a military annexation of Greenland as highly improbable.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

Latvia and Sweden also recently restarted military service and Lithuania brought it back after Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

He also examined the history of those peculiar twists and turns on the city perimeter, mucking through L.A.’s long-simmering stew of real estate grabs, water politics and annexation schemes.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

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