The main point of the post was: Even if applied to western Europe or the European Union the original post he's responding to is grossly overgeneralizing and wro

The main point of the post was: Even if applied to western Europe or the European Union the original post he's responding to is grossly overgeneralizing and wrong. Otherwise you're right: When talking about europe, most western europeans don't include russia or respectively those part of russia that geographically belong to europe and most probably ukraine and other eastern european countries are not included as well.