Before i answer just tell me:

Is Israel doing settler colonialism?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Feel free to check with different sources if you want, but yes they ARE trying to colonize Ukraine.

cepa.org/article/behind-the-li…

newyorker.com/news/essay/the-w…

Moscow Plans to Colonize Occupied Ukraine With 5 Million People

Behind the Lines: Russia’s Struggle to Colonize Ukraine - CEPA

Despite Russia's repression, population replacement, and forced identity changes, Moscow’s colonizing tactics have failed.

^{Elina Beketova (CEPA)}

No Hitler did settler colonialism. In Europe. He threw the natives in ovens and stole their house.

That's why Hitler is regarded as the ultimate evil. He did settler colonialism against white people.

Yep, that's why Hitler is regarded as the ultimate evil, the settler colonialism.

The Anschluss and the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia were both justified under the guise of protecting and uniting ethnic Germans in the regions, Hitler even said he'd totally, for realsies stop after that. But I wouldn't expect .ml'ers to care about anything that happened before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact broke down.

Like this?

A few weeks after the Wehrmacht’s March 1939 occupation of all Czechoslovakia, and despite increasing doubts about Western intentions, Stalin again approached the Franco-British powers.

On 16 April 1939, he submitted a formal proposition: a three-power military pact with the obvious goal of deterring Nazi aggression.

Stalin’s diplomatic proposal mirrored the agreement in place prior to the First World War, in which Britain, France and Russia were bound together in an alliance directed against the German and Austro-Hungarian empires.

Had Stalin’s approach been accepted, it can only have changed the course of history – as such a union would have ensured, right from the beginning in the event of a conflict, that Hitler faced a nightmare war on two fronts.

This final Soviet offer of alliance with the West was snubbed, however, with the British in particular treating Moscow with disregard. Strong anti-Bolshevik feelings were widespread amongst the conservatives in the British government, and with Chamberlain himself.

The USSR's failed attempts to ally with the West - Global Village Space

If Stalin's approach of USSR and Western Alliance against Hitler been accepted, it could have changed the course of history...

^{Shane Quinn (Global Village Space)}

Buddy, I'm not going to defend the actions of Western powers during the build up to World War II. I agree with you that an antifascist alliance should have been formed and could have stopped Hitler much sooner and with much less death.

I do find it interesting that the article you provided makes no mention of Soviet annexation (Imperialism? Colonization? Liberation? Let me know which hyperspecific term for invading another country I should use) of the pre-Brest-Litovsk territory they lost.

I agree with you that an antifascist alliance should have been formed and could have stopped Hitler much sooner and with much less death.

You seemed to imply that the USSR gladly made a peace treaty with Hitler at the onset instead of trying to gather allies to fight Hitler first.

Let me know which hyperspecific term for invading another country

Imperialism. Unless the USSR expelled or tried to exterminate the citizens of conquered territory, that would be settler colonialism.

For more information on the terminology and why it's important: