> Emphasis on the word 'alleged' which is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the article This is the BBC, talking about something which might be a criminal offenc

> Emphasis on the word 'alleged' which is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the article This is the BBC, talking about something which might be a criminal offence, for which no-one has been (as yet) convicted. They will absolutely use the word 'alleged'. If someone is standing over a pile of corpses with a gun and saying "I did it, and I'd do it again", the BBC will still refer to this as alleged murder unless or until there is a conviction, as will most other high-quality journalistic outlets; it's a fairly standard convention. > Except you definitely CAN annex a foreign country. How does he think the US got Texas, Hawaii, California, Nevada, Utah, and overseas territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa? By sneakily doing it before the United Nations Charter, one assumes. (Also some of these were via cession, which is a bit different).