It states that the occupation of territory shall cease after one year of general close of military operations.
One year of occupied status would be 1/20/2022.
I’ve read through it for 20 minutes. I can’t decipher this stuff. Anyone wanna dive in and see if this is actually something?!
Sauce: https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/law_war_manual15.pdf
Good call, didn’t think of it that way but they put themselves on blast acting like that