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    19.500 according to Ukrainian sources. Incidentally Israel has killed more children than this.

    The goal of settler colonialists is to wipe out the native population and replace it with their own race, not forcibly assimilate it.

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      Settler colonialism is not about race, it’s about the goal of eliminating one society by forcibly establishing another and pushing the original one out. What you are talking about is called ethnic cleansing. Settler colonialism attacks the idea of Palestine and Ukraine, ethnic cleansing is killing people systematically because they are Palestinian or Ukrainian.

      Israel does their settlement one way, because they are racially and religiously motivated, Russians do their settlement another way because they are imperialistically and national chauvinistically motivated.

      Yes, they are not exactly alike, but the actions and end goals don’t differ as much as the motivations.

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        Settler colonialism is not about race

        Have you ever noticed America being very white and not very native American?

        How about Australia?

        Apartheid South Africa?

        Russians do their settlement another way because they are imperialistically and national chauvinistically motivated.

        There’s Russian colonization of Crimea but the goal of Russia is to annex Ukraine and forcibly assimilate its population. Not to wipe out or expell all Ukrainians.