> What about the European power with the world’s largest nuclear arsenal?
If we’re being pedantic to the point of silliness, we could argue that a significant fraction of Russia’s nuclear assets are outside European Russia [1][2]. And that Muscovite Russia retains significant elements of its Mongol roots relative to the Kievan Rus [3].
It's not pedantic, Russia is part of Europe and according to your link has 80% of its population in Europe [1]. The exclusion from the list of European Nuclear powers is incorrect and politically motivated.
Nothing in the text you’re referring to implies that. It just suggests Russian isn’t fully European. Which has never been in doubt. Within a security context where Russia is the aggressor, it makes sense to exclude them.
If we’re being pedantic to the point of silliness, we could argue that a significant fraction of Russia’s nuclear assets are outside European Russia [1][2]. And that Muscovite Russia retains significant elements of its Mongol roots relative to the Kievan Rus [3].
[1] https://npolicy.org/interactive-nuclear-atlas/russias-nuclea...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Russia
[3] https://geohistory.today/mongol-empire-effects-russia/