• Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Look. I get that you heard that word somewhere. But everything isn’t colonizing.

    Annexing would be a better description to what they’re doing.

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      11 months ago

      Its literally colonizing though. It’s sending their citizens to build settlements in areas that do not belong to them.

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          11 months ago

          Russia circa 2024 disagrees because they wanted it to sound voluntary. News went with it because annex is technically correct in the close by/far away context, but not the whole colonialism is always by force context.