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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.
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To be fair, China and Russia participate in the fantasy.
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American values, not western.
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US values, from the culture of the last 40 years.
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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.

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Or maybe not, since it's Europe who are objecting here?
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Yet it’s the very west uefa protesting.. right
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