From my point of view it's not preferring a US way of living, but living in freedom. In Europe, US, and many other parts of the world, a lot of lives have been sacrificed in the many battles for freedom over the last 1000s of years. I wish for all societies to be able to live in as much freedom as possible. We all can see the real intentions of Putin. That has nothing to do with the cruelties that happened in Donbas area, its just an excuse he is using to control Ukraine. If it was for Donbas only, then he should've gone into that area alone. But he didn't. He targets the whole coast of Ukraine for the simple reason to have total control over Ukraine by controlling all harbours. The result of this is, freedom taken away from Ukraine society. Recently we've seen the brutality of Russian army. Maybe similar brutality as the groups that you call neo-nazis used against the Russian peeps in Donbas, I don't deny that, nor underwrite it since I simply don't know. Bottom line, Putin real intentions are to control about 40M peeps in Ukraine, which essentially means taking away some to more freedom from Ukraine peeps while Ukraine peeps show the world they dont want to be taken away their freedom. Because the Ukrains dont want the Russian army in their conuntry, want to fight them, want their freedom from Russia, I agree with the support the western world is giving Ukraine, which is essentially weapons to defend themselves. Gas and all still flowing: if it was up to me, we would've stopped buying gas from Russia a long time ago. I have no idea how long this all will take, but I predict an end of Putin as a ruler of Russia. He started his own end. If what happens after him will be better or not, only time will tell.

Regarding censoring content in Europe: I'm not sure what you mean. Can you point out what exactly is censored and how this is done? For instance in my country, no content is blocked by the ISPs (internet service providers). We have no law that says to block certain types of content other than maybe a pirate bay (while I still can access that service). And yes, I do not believe our Dutch government have (certain) control over our ISPs outside our public view forcing them to block specific services (which is not me being naive). And yes, EU banned two media stations, something that is not my choice, to be honest. That said, many other Russian news agencies and stations are still available, including TASS and Infradax.