Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he is offering “Parliament’s unreserved apologies” to the world, several days following scandalous revelations that lawmakers mistakenly praised a man who fought in a Nazi division in WWII.

“This is a mistake that deeply embarrassed Parliament and Canada,” Trudeau said Wednesday in a televised address ahead of his apology in the House of Commons. …

“All of us who were in this House on Friday regret deeply having stood and clapped, even though we did so unaware of the context,” he said.

[As I wrote yesterday, it was incumbent on Trudeau and the Parliament to *learn* that context *before* pulling that stupid, rancid PR-strategy attempt. It’s not like this was some sort of secret history. The conflict between Russians and Ukrainians goes back decades if not centuries and both sides have atrocities in that history. That doesn’t give Russia any right to invade Ukraine now, but maybe policymakers could act like grown-ups and study up on the history before posing as moral voices. — Ed]