1. In light of Cuban story, worth remembering that one of the uses Canada has in world is back-channel for the USA.
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2. American governments have the puzzling habit of often not even recognizing regimes they have disagreements with.
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3. American non-recognition policy long predates Cold War: USA refused to recognize revolutionary Haiti because it overthrew slavery.
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4. During post-war years, USA didn't recognize Maoist China, so Canada served as back-channel for communication.
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5. During Vietnam war there was a complex back channel: North Vietnam talked to Poland which talked to Canada which talked to USA.
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6. In effect, Vietnam negotiations went on forever because USA played elaborate game of telephone. Very high school behavior.
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7. I think there was also some back-channel stuff during the Cuban Missile crisis, although my memory is fuzzy.
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@Ali_Gharib A notable exception here is Iran. Canadian pro-Israel ideologues have *downgraded* Iran relations even amid US/Iran thaw.1 reply 6 retweets 0 likes -
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9. Iran provides an interesting test case because of course Canada maintained diplo relations after revolution
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10. Canadian embassy of course used position in revolutionary Iran to shield & smuggle out American diplomats.
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11. Troubling thing about Iran story is of course Canada also allowed CIA to use our embassy as a listening post.
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12. Canadian embassies as CIA listening posts undermine our ability to be effective middle-men, so Iran story has little known dark side.
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13. You know how Christian de Neuvillette as middle man for Cyrano de Bergerac? That's Canada.
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