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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'd say they were imperialist but if you're conquering more and more territory to add to your contiguious empire, is that really "colonialism"? Isn't colonialism about faraway places, not lands on your border?

well we are dealing with tankies here and most of them can’t read

I would argue against them being 'colonialist' in any descriptive sense, but not in any way that is exhonorative. Like the Greeks and Phoenicians were all about building colonies around the Med but I don't think that counts for what we call 'colonialism'. Imperialism also barely counts, imo.