Europe is but a peninsula.

This is true

I prefer western eurasia myself, though i respect your choice too of

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bit?

It’s a line people drew and said, do the pillaging outside these lines. The one or two times they did it inside the lines, everyone got really mad.

On what basis do we decide that Europe is its own continent

It’s not a continent, or even a subcontinent, it’s just a place

And Russia is not part of that place

Pakistan or Bangladesh is not part of India either, there’s no contradiction here