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Originally Posted by jwoody
Not necessarily, I just haven't gotten around to colouring that part yet.
I'm undecided about Turkey and a few of the Balkan states.
What makes it 10x more Western?
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For one, they are virtually all EU nations now, which makes them both economically and politically part of Western Europe. Russia is the nation that is remaining aloof from integration into the western sphere and indeed, appear determined to remain (or regain) a power unto itself. Russia's future, economically, will likely lie with supplying the far east (China, Japan, etc) with raw materials more so than Europe.
Only Belarus, of the former "Eastern Bloc", seems to retain strong eastern (ie Russian) orientation.