The bloody war in Ukraine drags on. Negotiations yielded no results. In the meantime, the western public is also feeling the consequences of the conflict: higher prices, an enormous influx of refugees. Former correspondent Wierd Duk wonders in a new episode of the podcast ‘Het Land van Wierd Duk’ whether the battlefield in Ukraine will not become the terrain where all kinds of groups with different interests will fight each other. “I fear a situation like the Balkans, but with a nuclear power – Russia – as one of the parties in the conflict.”