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(Which, of course, I find deeply colonial and insulting to Cubans)

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There are ways they could have done it, but this would have meant cooperating directly with the Cuban govt (whether giving direct aid or sending actual food rations to be distributed by the Cuban state). Clearly, Canada wanted to boost to the idea that the Cuban state 'can't be trusted' with this.

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All that to say, the relatively paltry $8 mil was promised to these NGOs so despite the framing by Anand, it will do little to alleviate the immediate crisis. But Canadian airlines cancelling flights to Cuba is definitely aggravating the crisis and giving moral support to Trump. Villain behaviour.

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So theoretically if WFP is running a school lunch program it could get out into that. More likely, it will get funneled into more long-term projects like agriculture programs (as if Cubans don't know how to grow food). Purpose of these is often to 'teach' western market-oriented practices.

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It's unlikely that anything has moved that quickly, because Canadian aid is not given to the Cuban govt but to North American NGOs (like WFP) that choose how to disperse it. A lot of money typically ends up staying in the NGO as staff salaries etc, and money is put into their programs.

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Still holding out hope for team USA to get knocked out so that there is at least some modicum of justice

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Tragic to watch Canada knock Cuba out of the WBC even while -in real life- the Canadian govt is helping Trump commit mass murder against Cubans. Watching baseball in Cuba is one of the most joyous experiences of my life: no ads, no luxury boxes, just incredible baseball played by normal people.

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So while I'm sympathetic to the sentiment that many members of the current US administration are openly announcing themselves as war criminals, I worry that sitting back and waiting for the machinery of war-criminal-prosecution to happen reflects a serious misunderstanding of how such justice works.

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And this is only the high-ranked Nazis we are talking about. Mid-level Nazis were desperately trying to get out of the socialist bloc (where they would be jailed or executed) and tens of thousands found refuge in the west. (Canada became a haven for Banderites from Ukraine, Ustaše from Croatia, etc)

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So while the Allies were still Allied and trying to cooperate in the defeat of Nazi Germany, and with the public demanding justice for Nazi crimes, some measure of accountability was doled out through the Nuremberg process. However, it was short-lived and often undermined. Many Nazis walked free.

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One major problem with the war crimes tribunals was that the western powers - particularly the US - were secretly exfiltrating captured Nazis back to Washington to work for them. Reinhard Gehlen, for instance, was a high-ranking Nazi whom the CIA recruited to run the secret police in West Germany.

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Scholarship on this period indicates that without Soviet pressure, the Nuremberg trials might never have happened. The terms were premised on the work of a Soviet lawyer, Aron Trainin, but lost some of their strength as Allied powers worried they could set standards they, too, would have to follow.

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Ok, but nevertheless the west did join the war against Hitler and he was defeated. Notably, tribunals for war crimes (which would culminate in the creation of a court in The Hague) were undertaken at the insistence of the Soviet Union, after the western powers tried to kill the idea in 1942.

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(Among the many receipts for this claim, I can point to the 1937 visit of the Canadian Prime Minister to Berlin, which was strategized alongside the British govt, and was designed to convey to Hitler that as long as he limited his ambition to Eastern Europe, he would have a free hand.)

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The Anglo-American powers joined the war eventually, but only opened up serious offensives against the Nazis after the Soviets had pushed them back and were marching towards Berlin. Western leadership had been very warm with Hitler through the mid 1930s and tried hard to forge an alliance.

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First, most obvious point: the Nazis were not voted out of office nor were they stopped by civil disobedience or protest. They were only ousted by military opposition, and the most significant factor by a mile was the Soviet Union, which lost more than 30 million people in the war against the Nazis.

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And of course I understand and agree with the sentiment that this is a crystal clear reflection of Nazi ideology. But I worry that we don't really understand how the Nazis were defeated and how there came to be a "The Hague" and what really happened (or didn't happen) there.

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Tyler Shipley @shipster.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is a guy who has Nazi-affiliated tattoos on his body and whom the US military itself (!) flagged as a potential 'insider threat' for his far-right politics. A guy who has draped himself in the idea of a Christian crusade against Islam. I'm seeing a lot of "this will be evidence at The Hague..."

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"What happens to Iran's nuclear weapons" is that they'll continue to not exist. For anyone who doesn't know, his father the Shah was one of the most hated despots of the 20th century. He was installed to rule Iran by the CIA after they (CIA) overthrew the government elected by Iranians in the 1950s.

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Yeah I remember in 2003 watching the Cherry-McLean debate on HNIC and thinking I was glad Canada stayed out of it. Years later I discovered it was bullshit: Canadian troops were totally involved in the invasion and then Canada officially joined the "reconstruction" which started in April 2003!

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Does Cuba supply Russia with drones used to attack Ukraine? Because the Ukrainian government supports the starving of Cubans too.

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In case you're wondering what Canada is saying, it's saying that the principle threat to peace is the country that just got preemptively bombed bsky.app/profile/nkal...

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Ukraine also supported the US kidnapping of Venezuela's president and the starving of Cubans bsky.app/profile/hist...

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