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Article says Western Europe, but Norway is in Northern Europe. “First rocket to launch from Europe outside Russia” would have been perfectly correct.
by xixixao 1mo ago
Article says Western Europe, but Norway is in Northern Europe.
“First rocket to launch from Europe outside Russia” would have been perfectly correct.
- setopt 1mo agoIn the political sense, «Western Europe» is typically taken to be «NATO Europe», and «Eastern Europe» is «Warsaw Pact Europe». Which is different from a strict geographic definition.
- sublimefire 1mo agoThat is also not correct anymore as Northern countries were reallocated to include the Baltics in UN as an example.
- xixixao 28d agoYou’d have to say which NATO. Czechia is in NATO and was in Warsaw pact. If you said: Americans usually incorrectly think of Western Europe as those countries not partially or fully under control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, then I’d agree with you.