How on Earth is it not settler colonialism when Russia engages in a prolonged campaign of trying to russify the Ukranian language, heavily propogandizing those in border regions to either get them to apply for, or either grant them Russian passports/citizenship, then they claim the rightful borders have moved, then invade and capture those border areas (and others), and then emgage in ethnic cleansing within those border areas?

Please, explain to me how that isn't settler colonialism, just with a few initial, semi-novel/semi-uncommon extra steps?

you don't know what is settler colonialism and you don't know what is reality, gtfo don't compare Palestine to Ukraine

Would you care to explain anything, or do you just want to have a hissy fit?

I am just asking. That does not mean I am defending Isreal for fucks sake.

You don't read books or theory about colonialism, you don't look at the news or the current event, you give vibe based "analysis" of the situation, and you want me to explain the entirety of colonialism from beginning to end just because your lazy ass won't read Frantz Fanon.

Well wasn't the excuse that the Jews had that land originally then over the history of time there were land disputes. I forget the whole history of it but that's a bit I remember.

ok; it's just been a common rhetoric to justify the continuation of the apartheid if not the genocide outright.

I always support the culture that doesn’t put women into black togas and tell them what can they do at the threat of being stoned or their hand cut off.

That’s why I love israeli. It is hard not to. They are extremely pretty. Men and women alike have some unreal genes. You go on the street and half of it is beautiful women just going about their days like they weren’t looking like angels.

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That was like 2500 years ago. There are Palestinians today who still carry the keys of the houses they were forced out of.

Should I have the right to go to Africa and kick people out of their houses, on the basis that all humans are believed to have originally come from Africa? There's a statute of limitations at some point, surely.

Kinda like the Jewish invaders in middle east

Is there a statue of limitation on generations of systematic oppression all stemming from brutal imperialism? No, seems kinda dumb for an imperialist to put that in their own law, considering.

You're right, everybody needs to continue fighting over millenia long grudges. That's what leftism is all about.

I suppose youre the ultimate authority on what is just and unjust?

3000 years ago, those knife-eared bastards double-crossed us, and now none of us dwarves would be caught dead associating with any elf.

Ok so I actually have a degree in Poli Sci and another degree in Econ, I have read quite a lot of theory, often got into arguments with my NeoLiberal professors over things like the IMF, WorldBank, how to evaluate systemic risk in financial markets, the idea of bailing out Wall Street during the GFC instead of jailing them all as corrupt, as Iceland did, once got a bad mark on a paper about conflict goods because my PoliSci prof simply refused to acknowledge that US Army troops were guarding opium farms in Afghanistan, independently sought out and studied modern Marxist econonmists outside of the scope of course work, etc etc.

I want you to explain, in a couple sentences, or paragraphs if you need to... how the situation I described above either is not settler colonialism, or is a wildly innacurate mischaracterization of the situation, or some mix of both.

Not just yell 'read theory!' at me and give me an author name.

I do not need the entire concept of settler colonialism explained to me. I am familiar with it.

If you've read and understood Fanon, you should be able to... you know, make that argument.

Succinctly.

In your own words.

Otherwise you're just a pretentious hipster, arrogantly name dropping authors and scoffing.

What are you talking about the russians already lived in donbass which is why they voted to secede when the banderites started bombing them. Its not like settler colonialism at all.

But many do, and did historically, as it was part of Russia prior to the USSR.

But I have a genuine question: suppose that the majority of people living in Donbass genuinely wanted to break off and become part of Russia. Should they be allowed to, and if so, what steps should they have taken to make it happen, in the context that the government banned major opposition parties that were sympathetic towards Russia? What are you supposed to do, exactly, when the country is moving in a direction that you disagree with and shutting the opposition out of the political process, after seizing power through force?

A downvote is not an answer, btw.

I know. I 'support' (for lack of a better term because I have not actually done shit for them) Palestinians. But hamas is another matter and I won't pretend they are the good guys.