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Oh, one more thing[0]

The guy says 'just promoted to an official status ... in the past month'.

So he himself confirms, what for the 33 years they didn't bother with a language 'which is spoken very widely'. And suddenly, in the year 2022, not only it's spoken 'very widely' despite being non-existent in any conceivable metric[1] before, but promoted to 'a secondary official status nonetheless' absolutely ignoring the language which is used by 30% of the country.

Imagine Ottawa declares what Mandarin is now 'promoted to an official status (not as a primary language, but to a secondary official status nonetheless)' instead of French? [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ27fEm_ZCA

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Ukraine#2001_nati...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Canada#The_two_of...



Ukraine is a sovereign nation, with the right to make its own decisions.

Neither you nor Russia have any say in this whatsoever.

If you still vehemently disagree, the best recourse is to get Ukrainian citizenship, enter politics, and make your case. That's how this works.


> Ukraine is a sovereign nation, with the right to make its own decisions

That's why it imposes it's own vision on the language they don't even use.

> Neither you nor Russia have any say in this whatsoever

Neither you nor Ukrainians have any say in how people who speak English should use it.

> That's how this works.

Lol?




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