Comments by "Tomas Vrabec" (@tomasvrabec1845) on "What actually counts as Europe?" video.

Judging the borders of Europe based the membership in the EU is the most stupid thing anyone can say in this topic. EU has nothing to do with the Borders of Europe. Same as Turkey is not suddenly in the North Atlantic just because it's in NATO... It's absolutely deranged to even suggest EU defining Europe... Yeah Cyprus is Asian island with mainly European population and is in the EU. So what? That doesn't make it European Island.... It just makes it member of the EU. Same with Rome... Just because they had an empire doesn't make all members European. Why would it? Did Indonesia suddenly become European when the Duch ruled over it? No. It's been standardised that Europe ends at Urals and Caucasus for several reasons. From the best geographic boundaries available, to Ethno cultural changes and populations. Urals is where Slavs traditionally ended and beyond was the Russian imperial non-european possessions. West of Urals is also called Rus. I hate Russian federation due to their butchery. Yet that's where it ends. Iceland is close enough both geographically, culturally and ethnically. Hence in Europe.
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 @kirillskwerty Russia is very much European.
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@kirillskwerty So Russia is not Slavic now, Russia is not Orthodox, Russia taken back it's claim of being the Roman successor state, Russia that totally did not historically have closer ties to Europe than to anywhere else even through their conquest of the east....
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 @kirillskwerty "Russia is mostly in Asia" Sure, and Britain is an Asian country because they owned India... Absolutely illogical
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@hia5235 Have you skipped advanced history lessons? 1. Slavs did "Arrive" in 600ad. Slavs migrated in 5-6Ad. They were already in Europe since 1000 BCE and were first encountered by Romans by 100 Ad (recorded in writing). Slavs were simply located in the eastern part of modern Poland and western Part of Ukraine which is cut - off from the realms of Romans by mountains... And the Romans only reached near the Danube quite late ... Slavs were never from Asia, nor any area that was seen as Asia...
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