I know that sometimes I don’t always “assume good faith” but personally I think that it’s great that people come to OSM to talk about how these sorts of changes get made. To be honest, there haven’t been as many fixed opinions in this thread than there have been in the DWG’s postbag on similar issues (“well obviously X belongs to country Y - country Z are a bunch of scumbags”).
There have certainly been a few crossed wires about what has already happened in OSM and how names of places even work, which isn’t so surprising if you’re less familiar with how the sausage is made than people have been here for getting on for 20 years. Until Peter’s edict comes into force and we can name everything after Dutch 60s prog rock songs, we have to deal with the world as it is, with politicians in it.