Professor David Criekemans after Putin’s speech: “We are gradually crawling through the eye of the needle” | War Ukraine and Russia

“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 it is precisely the West that is hypocritical and at the same time extended his hand for negotiations. Where is this going? Professor of international politics David Criekemans (UAntwerp): “If Ukraine joins NATO, we will automatically end up in World War III.”