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Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz a US territory
(www.thehill.com)
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Somebody tell this 🤡 (and Putin too) that annexations can happen after a war, not during. If you try to do reichskommissariats before the end of the war, you're in shitty company and people will take you less seriously.
Oh will the US have to give Hawaii back ...or is that different?
Yes.
If you don't see how that's different, you're being obstinate.
But for completeness' sake, and our less discerning readers: HugeNerd has implied no significant difference between the US' annexation of Hawaii and the fiascos of Russia annexing and then losing e.g. Kherson, or Trump claiming sovereignty over a piece of land he probably couldn't even control for a day, let alone keep indefinitely.
Oh. 🙄
I think the difference is that Hawaii was annexed in the 1890s not the 2020s things change over time.