• Successful_Try543@feddit.org
    4·
    6 days ago

    western asia doesn’t exist, it’s just the middle east /s

    It depends on where one assumes the European/Asian border. Our first Western German chancellor placed it much further west than the Ural:

    When I arrive in the North German Plain near Magdeburg, Asia begins for me.
    ― Konrad Adenauer

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      Based. Fuck placating the russians in pretending they’re “good enough” to be called European.

      (No slight against Asia, I’m saying the russians aspire to be something they are not as part of trying to gain cachet they don’t deserve)