[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Hweinlant

Russians being Europeans is your way. I have nothing against that.

I will quote myself on another thread:

Originally Posted by Mynydd

The geopolitical and cultural space that we know as Europe started to be defined with the Graeco-Roman World. It is through the assimilation of different ethnic peoples of the Romanitas (later Christianitas) that Europe evolves until our times.

To the West, people acquired it through direct contact with Rome or through indirect spread of Romanitas. To the East, this contact comes with Byzantium. As in the case of Russia. And in fact, Russian culture is unmistakably European.

Certainly, it is not Western European. But neither is western the Finno-Ugro-Baltic culture.

But if you want a more restrictive definition of what/who is European, by sticking to the reality of culture and history, you would be out of that definition without a hint of doubt.

Have as many Russkies as you want. To be honest I would like you to have many. For some reasons I would not.

They sure deserve you just as much you deserve them. Have a good time. I dont like arabs either, keep them too. You allready have expereicence. With Russkies you will sing christmassong too.

Better than arabs anyway ?

Or better than Baltics?

In some provinces south of here they are having a serious problem with very violent and criminal gangs of Baltic peoples, who people sometimes call "Russians" out of ignorance.

But anyway, let me point to the hipocrisy that's being played here, not only by you but by other Fino-Ugrians too.

It's being suggested that by sympathising with the Russians in a fashion of European friendship, one is letting Finns and Estonians out to their fate, in the hands of some alleged evil Russians. As if anyone owed you any allegiance. Not a chance. Especially not to you if we consider that the Finnish crowd has been most pro-active in the Nordicist and Northern isolationist fashions. Starting with their role as one of the largest groups in the now extinct The Nordish Portal, and ending with the role of founding and ownership of NordFolk.

Your credit is below limits.