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Put it this way - Europeans don't generally call themselves from "the West" in 2026 - it's an American geopolitical fantasy.

To be fair, China and Russia participate in the fantasy.

American values, not western.

US values, from the culture of the last 40 years.

We're really going to act like the entire world doesn't have issues with this.

Given this is a worldwide institution dealing with this, I think you are both casting the new too small.

Famously before either the US or Western world, these values were never celebrated.

Or maybe not, since it's Europe who are objecting here?

Yet it’s the very west uefa protesting.. right