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there are genuine “the Mongols didn’t actually invade anybody” truthers on this FREE website that’s entertainment no LLM could generate

I guess I can see why you wouldn’t think Russia was waging a brutal colonialist war in Ukraine if you also put scare quotes around the word “colonialist” in reference to the literal Mongols, lol

I’m actually a big fan of Mongol history and find them to be fascinating but like, I’m pretty sure they themselves were very clear on the whole “yup, we’re 100% conquering you guys by the sword and the horse” thing

specialists would have better takes on this but i also got the sense the Mongols being pretty straight-forward about their goals being “acquiring land and resources” without wasting much time on ofty religious/moral justifications was also a key reason they were pretty religiously tolerant

in quite a few ways you’d rather have a conqueror who just wants your stuff and to extract tribute going forward - and who isn’t really interested in the Moral Fabric of Religious And Racial Purity

“Imperialism is only when racial, religious and cultural superiority” oh you sweet summer child

ah yes Russia, widely known for its benevolence towards ethnic minorities

well, it's (probably? i'm too lazy to check) truethat russia doesn't keep stateless people. can't conscript the stateless, after all. russian & soviet method has always been to strip ppl of identity by russifying them, while still withholding the benefits of being ethnic-russian

As someone who grew up in Russia, having seen both the USSR version with relatives in command positions in the Red Army, as well as Russia of the 90s with entirely different set of relatives going into, the wild world of private businesses, my response to the quoted post goes something like this.

Does this person think the pogroms, Russification, Circassian genocide, Holodomor, abolition of the Arabic alphabet, etc. were just big misunderstandings?