Statehood Day, 15 July 2025
A greeting for a young holiday about a very old claim.
This is one of the newer dates in the calendar and it refers to one of the oldest things in it: the argument that statehood here has a long and traceable history rather than beginning in 1991.
How that history should be read is a matter for historians and for the people whose history it is, and there is a genuine scholarly conversation about it that a visitor has no standing in.
What I can say is that a country adding a holiday to make a historical argument is doing something every country does, and doing it openly.
Congratulations on Statehood Day.
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