No they arent puppets.... that is Russian Propaganda, EU is largely a democratic series of countries, each leader elected by the people with significant opposition parties, as we saw in France recently. amazing re-engineering of facts by yourself Landy. Europe and USA are significnat trading blocs, which Putin has decided to put a sword too through his crzay invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has become once again a despotic fascist regime, lead by essentially one person, Putin. Putin has systematically killed off free media and opposition parties, and is feeding this futile and destructive war in Ukraine for land for his elites. Tryanny has to be fought.
