Seems like Europe is a beacon of freedom to you. You realize the leader of the EU is unelected? And that Free Speech suppression, socialism, crushing of homeschool, spreading of homosexuality and islam, and the Green religion is their goal.
Strange birds to use as judges of freedom.
And yes, we can see that Europe is really scared of a Russian invasion. That must be why they began advancing NATO/EU east for the last 15 years until they finally hit the Russian red line of Ukraine. NATO/EUs insistence on
surrounding Russia and expanding right up to the Russian border is the problem here.
“Seems like Europe is a beacon of freedom to you.”
You need to read the human rights reports and political freedom (or lack thereof) reports on Russia.
Equivocating Western Europe’s socialist ills to Russia’s autocratic government where journalist are jailed and killed for disagreeing with Putin...is absurd.