Professor David Criekemans after Putin’s speech: “If Ukraine joins NATO, we will automatically end up in a Third World War”

“The West does not want to see us free. It wants to see us as a mob of slaves,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a new speech announcing the annexation of four occupied Ukrainian regions. According to Putin, the annexation will partly correct ‘the injustice of the disintegration of the Soviet Union’. Putin insisted that the West is hypocritical and at the same time reached out for negotiations. Where is this going? Professor of international politics David Criekemans (UAntwerp) explains.

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