> all prior history and detailed facts on the ground into consideration

back that up with history and facts that I'm supposedly leaving out, maybe? that would not only make your claim more credible, but also offer substance I could consider to change my mind. without that, we might as well just be arguing "no, you're wrong" indefinitely ;-)

I don't know how NATO usually deals with national languages. on the one side of the Atlantic, the US are quite English-(self-)centric; on the other, Europe is a cauldron of different languages, so there's presumably some precedent policy that would have applied should Ukraine be or become part of NATO (which I personally find unlikely at this time, as that would drag them all into a thermonuclear war with Russia; it would at least solve global warning, human overpopulation, and funding retirement pensions :-)/2

now, though language colonialism is surely a relevant expression of unjust power, I'm wary of its coming from either (or any) empire. I don't need to have a proposal of a solution or a grasp of this specific issue to perceive other manifestations of injustice and ongoing colonialism that I denounce herein. what I can say with certainty is that it would suck if Ukrainian were to become verboten just now that I finally started learning it formally (vs the little I picked up from conversations between grandma, mom and aunt back home when I was a kid)