NATO troops in Ukraine? Macron triggers fears – “Juggles with the idea of ​​a major war”. “Putin wants to fight this war for as long as possible in order to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO after a peace agreement,” says Ulf Steindl from the “Austria Institute for European and Security Policy” “Both show the frightening immaturity of European politics when it comes to existential questions," says Joachim Weber, security policy expert at the University of Bonn.