What I mean is expanding your base country by annexing occupied lands, like this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Nazi_Germany.svg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Nazi_Germany.svg
Yeah, why not? This is exactly what they do every WWW (including last Hungary episode yesterday)
Countries capitulate, but that doesn't always lead to a peace treaty. They can go into exile if they are a member of a faction. You saw this in the WWW with Japan. Daniel captured all of PRC territory but there was no peace treaty. That didn't happen until the faction leader (China) also capitulated. Then he had options covering both PRC and China.Once a country surrenders a peace treaty will trigger...