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Re:Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to contract... by bbarnett on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:46AM (#31258413)
Russia has a lot of special characteristics which most other European states lack

I once heard this stressed very strongly, from a historical, cultural, and political perspective.

Russia is not European.

If one considers the mindset which allowed this war to happen, and the politics, the fascism, this seems quite true.

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Re:Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to contract... by darebak on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:51AM (#31258757)
The largest country in Europe is not European?

The EU doesn't have the monopoly on being European or European values.

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Re:Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to contract... by freeflight on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @08:18AM (#31259425)
Europe is not even a geographical continent, its just one part of the Eurasian continent.

Which means the majority of Europe/Asia distinctions are drawn around economic, cultural and particularly political borders, none of which are natural but to a degree rather arbitrarily defined by humans depending on their particular agenda.

In that context "othering", up to a scale of denying whole nation states their geographical location and cultural influences, has never lead to better and more peaceful relations, quite the opposite.

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