Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
I agree with you that there are no good sides. Every government is evil by its nature, and the current implementations of both EU/US and Russian governments have obvious dark sides. Though, why I think that the EU/US governments are better in some ways is because EU/US leaders at least are ok with people criticizing them, while in Russia and the Russian speaking world it's totally a different story.
No, it's not any better, just different. They are both weeds of the same root.

The problem is that either side is heavily brainwashing the populace and the issues do become confusing since both have different objectives. My point is, there are a lot of posters that all can agree with the wrongdoing by the West but when it comes to Putin/neo-Soviet Russia, you have apologists who are from Russia or apologists to the Putin regime and even Westerners who are sympathetic who have little clue about Russia except for what the neo-Soviet posters here tell them. Thus, there is an imbalance and the reporting is skewed one way. That doesn't mean that one is 'better' than the other, however.