Day of Ukrainian Statehood 2024
The third observance of a young holiday about an old subject, and a note on what statehood means to somebody who deals with the state daily.
A good Day of Ukrainian Statehood.
A thought from someone whose work consists largely of dealing with a state. Statehood, in the abstract, is a historical and constitutional subject. In practice it is a customs officer applying a rule the same way this week as last week. It is a registry that returns an accurate answer. It is a court whose decision can be predicted from the law rather than from who is involved.
Those are unromantic definitions and they are the ones a business lives by. A state that works is one where the same input produces the same output regardless of who submits it.
Ukraine has moved a long way towards that in twenty years, unevenly and with reverses, and the direction has been consistent.
A good day to everyone marking it.
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