Boris Pistorius is known as a sober Lower Saxony – “storm -proof and earth -growing”, as it says in the country's hymn. In this respect, it can be assumed that the well-weighed sentence that the German Defense Minister said on Thursday on the sidelines of a meeting with his NATO colleagues in Brussels would have sounded more dramatic for other, hot -blown people. Pistorius was emphasized. “In my view, it would have been better to only speak about the possible NATO membership of Ukraine or about possible losses of territory in the country at the negotiating table and not to take it off the table beforehand,” said the minister.