Europe has never been larger, Neuropa vivat!

With all due respect to whoever made the above, Kalmykia is "European" in about the same sense as Chechnya or Dagestan. That is, not by much. 

I still distinctly remember an embarrasing Swedish news broadcast years ago which tried (in vain) to make the viewers more sympathetic to the plight of the Chechens by calling the war in Chechnya "European". Ahem, no, it´s "European" only in the purely geographic sense, but so fucking what? 

Istanbul is "European" by that standard, while Cyprus is "Asian" and the Canary Islands are "African". This is similar to people who call the African Wild Dog "the Painted Wolf" to make people more interested in saving it. 

I suppose an SJW would call it Euro-centric... 

What´s the point of this blog post? Absolutely nothing, except to annoy you, LOL.