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Ralph Thiele, Chairman of the Political-Military Society and President of EuroDefense Germany, takes a critical view of Ukraine's possible accession to the EU and NATO. "Ukraine was, after all, a very difficult state, key words being corruption and the mafia," says the security expert in an interview with "ntv." "The mafia is still active, for example, in selling the small arms that we supply to Ukraine. That's a real problem."

It's also problematic, he said, because it contradicts the principled ideas of the EU and NATO. "The basic idea in neither the EU nor NATO is, after all, that we take in problem children," Thiele explains. There is something "psychological about putting Ukraine on the list of candidates. But there is factual work to be done to bring it into a receptive state."

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