Re: [tz] WSJ follows AP to Kyiv

* John Hawkinson:

What would we say if diplomats in the US State Department reached out privately to Paul and asked him to accellerate the change and made an argument that doing so was to promote Ukrainian sovereignty and that was a preeminent national security interest of the United States?

Should the U.S. government really be the arbiter of how the citizens of Kyiv call themselves? I've changed my mind about this: Ignoring their request denies them one of the most basic aspects of self-determination. I don't see much of a difference anymore compared to, say, referring to transgender people using their pre-transition pronouns, against their explicit wishes.