Prime Minister Mark Carney says his foreign minister and the governor general will visit Greenland in early February in the wake of renewed threats by U.S.
  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for calling it what it is!

    Although according to Wikipedia

    Annexation can be legitimized if generally recognized by other states and international bodies.[8][9][2]

    The illegality of annexation means that states carrying out such acts usually avoid using the word annexation in describing their actions;[10][11] in each of the unresolved annexations by Israel, Morocco and Russia, the states have avoided characterizing their actions as such.[11][12]