annexed

If the US annexed Crimea under a republican president, you can bet Fox would try to whitewash it.

India annexed a countless other land-locked princely states too weak to fend off the Indian Army.

List all of the vast amounts of territory it has annexed using that extraordinary military power.

Very recently, tibet had defacto independence before it was annexed by the communist party in 1951.

They weren't aggressively annexed as a simple matter of controlling foreign territory or anything.

Detroit also never annexed its suburbs, so the tax base was reduced even more.

It was incorporated in 1807 and has not been annexed by Boston since.

Wasn't this a strategy one empire used to control the territories it annexed?

India annexed the Laccadive Islands even though it was a Muslim-majority region.

This is the case of properties in Crimea, now annexed by Russia.

Some perspective: - They annexed a 0.2 mile stretch of highway.

It was interesting to see /r/worldnews on Reddit go from a milquetoast forum into one of the internet's leading pro-Putin platforms overnight once Crimea was annexed.

Those are cities that annexed their suburbs, unlike Boston, so if you just compare the "city" population you're comparing apples to oranges.

Also consider the role of Austria during WW2: because Austria had been annexed by Germany ("voluntary" or not) it effectively ceased to exist as a separate entity.

These technically count as "Houston", because Texas law is very annexation-friendly, so Houston has annexed most of its suburbs and exurbs out to a radius of ~30 miles.

There are interesting side inputs as well, which is that this has been "disputed" for a long time but this sort of explicit action only started after Russia successfully annexed Crimea.