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It's not pedantic, Russia is part of Europe and according to your link has 80% of its population in Europe [1]. The exclusion from the list of European Nuclear
by rKarpinski 2y ago
It's not pedantic, Russia is part of Europe and according to your link has 80% of its population in Europe [1]. The exclusion from the list of European Nuclear powers is incorrect and politically motivated.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Russia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Russia
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Russia is part of Europe…politically motivated The Europe-Asia boundary is a political boundary [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates
- rKarpinski 2y agoSure, maybe "political" + "boundary" was redundant. But clearly missed the announcement that declared Eurasia to always having been Asia.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Eurasia to always having been Asia Nothing in the text you’re referring to implies that. It just suggests Russian isn’t fully European. Which has never been in doubt. Within a security context where Russia is the aggressor, it makes sense to exclude them.