HK65

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.

Are they segregating the population or practicing apartheid based on ethnicity?

As an example, they are declaring the homes of war refugees abandoned, and are giving it to Russians, specifically excluding Ukrainians.

That they are not merely trying to make Ukraine Russian-aligned.

They are trying to move 5 million Russians into Ukrainian territory, and have confiscated tens of thousands of homes after making their owners war refugees and are giving them to Russians.

They have kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, and they are not just educating them to be Ukrainians accepting Russian rule, but they want to completely Russify them as a further attempt of erasing the Ukrainian nation.

Yes. And so is Russia.

Israel wants it so that there are no more people who call themselves Palestinians in Gaza. Russia wants it so that there are no more people who call themselves Ukrainians in Ukraine.

They specifically mention that they use your data for marketing and advertising, and they also say in the CCPA section that California may view their activities as "selling data", as "some of our data sharing described in this privacy policy may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under those definitions, such as  disclosing Personal Data to third parties for our own advertising purposes."

So, yeah, they totally do sell all your data to everyone who is paying.

I don't often say this, but that society may just deserve this leader.

Except Russia also did and is doing settler colonialism, inasmuch they have been moving Ukrainians out and Russians into Ukraine for the past century at least, as they did with other Soviet republics, as they are doing to neighbouring states, with the aim of eroding their national identity.

Just like they are doing now. The only marginal difference is that there are not enough Ukrainians to alter electoral balances, and Russia would be able to dissolve the population of Ukraine via forced relocations instead of just killing them all. Both are genocide by the way.

They are attempting to do the same thing, to erase the national identity of the people living there and conquer the place.

Even the settlement thing matches, the Soviets used to move Russians into all the republics to erase national boundaries and make them all uniformly Russian.

BBC has changed the headline, and it shows inconsistently on their own site now, some places show the original, some the new.

I'll change it.

Edit: I've done it and now the link and the title shows different headlines, gotta love BBC.

EU tried to get its own minerals deal with Ukraine in the wake of Trump demands.

Apples and oranges.

The US minerals deal was "give us all your minerals, we will build our own mines on them that will not be subject to your own country's laws. You may keep some of the proceeds."

The EU minerals deal was "we will give you money and know-how to build your own mines, in exchange for long-term supply agreements. The resources and the mines will remain yours."

The difference is the one between someone extorting you to become an indentured taxi driver, and someone offering you a car in exchange for driving them to the airport once in a while. EU support was also not contingent on the deal, while it was made apparent that US support was.

Also Ukraine joining the EU would not make a “buffer”

That was indeed bad wording, I apologise. What I meant was that the EU would gain strategic depth and more advantageous launch site arrangements for missile warfare and whatnot, which would be useful for deterrence. I am from the Eastern periphery as well, and TBH I feel that there indeed is a first/second class EU citizen divide mainly along whether your country joined before or after 2004 (which would make me a second class citizen), but I feel that that particular division is getting less pronounced.

The headline is not editorialised, BBC is weird with this, I didn't notice, sorry, thanks for pointing it out.

Look the article up in their search: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=visszanyal+a+fagyi&d=NEWS_PS

Or look at the title bar of your browser when opening it. Lemmy retrieved this one automatically. I'll add an edit to clarify.