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> “The West” is any place to the West of where Christ was crucified.

This … isn’t true? Maybe a few hundred years ago that was the case, but since World War 2, The West means west of the Iron Curtain

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east and west were fighting and differentiated since at least before Alexander the great.

The Middle East (where Jesus was born and crucified) doesn't have anything to do with the Iron Curtain and is, quite obviously, not the center either.

I didn’t say anything about the East. I commented on what is regarded as The West

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