(April 28, 2016 at 7:05 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Illegal by whose laws?
By the same law as everyone occupying and annexing foreign soil as their own. The Germans may have had the power to annex the Alsace in 1871 and they may have kept it, if they hadn't lost WWI. It's just that the more powerful country can hold on to what it occupied. But that doesn't make it right by definition. It's still occupied territory without it's population having any say on the matter.