> in how many of those places in which actions took place in the modern era ... did the US, or any other democratic country, ANNEX the place and take it for th

> in how many of those places in which actions took place in the modern era ... did the US, or any other democratic country, ANNEX the place and take it for their own territory? That seems like an odd condition to add, but I still think the answer would be non-zero if we were more successful in our invasions of sovereign countries. Hard to annex a country that you eventually give up even pacifying. We are notably invading neither Russia nor the Ukraine.