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what's more embarassing is that you can't see anyting beyond your own bias

you should be embarrassed for that tweet.

The world is not a Disney movie with black and white one-dimensional characters

a democratic leader should have a little pride and decency. Castro was a dictator, Trudeau is pretending he was legitimate

you doing a PhD in whataboutery?@EliLake @thenation

What is really embarrassing is US foreign policy toward Cuba for the past 50 years.

try harder

Canada has always had good relations with Cuba, dictator or not. Gotta express condolences when your allies die.

And the don't-make-nice-with-dictators is a pretty impossible ask in a world with China at the centre of it.

I'm glad the Castros can always find a apologist in you.

Not apologizing. Just not a fan of the pearl-clutching moral outrage.

One can recognize the need for diplomacy and realpolitik while denouncing the heinous actions of a "remarkable leader"

Feels like if that's the goal, y'should've done it when he was still living. Kind of late, now.

I refer you to the last government and the OAS. This government has gone out of its way to accommodate authoritarians

I don't disagree. Dropping sanctions on Belarus and cozying up to Beijing are pretty spineless decisions.

Canada has long been the diplomatic go-between on U.S./Cuba relations. This carries with it decades of special obligation.

come on. This was humiliating. You can be diplomatic without fawning all over a dictator