This also applies to other settler colonies like a bunch of the middle east, Belarus, Hungary, etc.
So many places are settler colonies but they’ve just been the settlers for a while now and so it’s alright for them to genocide their (still very much alive) natives and minorities or something
The Actual Belarusians are a minority in their own country, in reality, it’s a Russian settler colony
Belarusian is discouraged to be spoken, their government can only hold onto power because of Russian support and fear of Russian retaliation, and they encourage the destruction of the Belarusian national identity which was not created in the 1900s
i really dont know if thats true? yes belrusian isnt used formally and they r a vassel of russia.
but that is different than settler colonialism, as far as i know belrusians werent partically displaced nor were there russian only cities/colonies made or favored. 84% of belrus is belrusian and 7% russian. russia/moscow did imperialism to belrus but its not a colony let alone a settler colony.
u might be able to make this aurgment for crymia or the far east of the russian federation,