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Wow, funny, I didn't hear the bombing of Yugoslavia and its disintegration, the invasion of Ukraine, and similar conflicts in Europe ever called altogether "European issues", but separated very well individually.
well technically, semantically it would be "eastern european" even though it's not really a thing. And it is generally considered to be a "european" problem, if you look into the matters from a more global perspective, it's entirely fair to state that.
My main point though was that it's not "racist" to exclaim that, it's just incredibly broad and referential. Which in current times is probably reasonable.
My point is that extremely broad claims about extremely different and unrelated issues, and painting them all "oh so difficult", is a tool used by western media to make people think the problems are too complicated to be solved and there's just nothing to do about violence in "the middle east", as US and its allies weren't responsible for more than half of it.