I think that Putin is a lot worse. The socialist EU is still a free part of the world where the poorest immigrants from all over try to go. Putin’s Russia is not a magnet for immigrants, maybe for fellow rich capitalist hoping to get a sweetheart deal from Putin and the crony capitalist. Putin’s made it impossible for political opposition to operate successfully. He’s made himself president for life. There in no politician on the scene in the EU like that. The days of Führer and Il Duce are long gone in Europe with Milosevic being the last clownish but brutal dictator. Putin is an anachronism and possibly one of the richest men in the world with much of his wealth stolen from his own people.
We have plenty of crony capitalism in our own country. We are debt slaves to the FED(eral reserve bank). The EU has all of its member nations under debt servitude, and for all we know, the FED and the EU may be controlled by the same central banking monopoly. So, while Putin may be worse, it is still only a matter of the “lesser of two evils”. I do realize that it is a complicated situation, so I can’t really see a clear good guy vs. bad guy. Whoever shot down MH17 is obviously bad, but unless someone confesses, we may never know for sure who it was.