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Reminder that all that bullshit about "territorial disputes" means nothing if the signatories agree to ignore it, or if they decide to live in the real world and acknowledge that an attack on a prospective member is still an attack on the alliance.
That said...
They really did have quite the corruption problem.
Unfortunately they almost certainly still do have a large corruption problem, despite it improving in recent years.
Of course, that doesn't mean they shouldn't be supported.
Yes. Unfortunately every corrupt individual and enabler of corrupt individuals bears some of the blame for why Ukraine was not accepted into NATO sooner.
As always, it's a cultural problem. Their culture needs to improve in order to reap the benefits of that improvement.