LOL politics in the rest of the world outside the US, Canada, Europe and China

These previews need like connected words that either all get included or all get cropped. The blurb is ominous af:

Japan on Friday unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China and ready it for sustained conflict, as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war… fears.

https://twitter.com/bsarwary/status/1605242420647858176?s=20&t=jlrUXeqxPbDLQACba89LbQ

Who could have seen this coming.

I think everyone did and saw it as not a good enough reason to not withdraw from Afghanistan.

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https://twitter.com/JonathanLKrohn/status/1611012514380144640

“The European Union calls once again on the Iranian authorities to immediately end the strongly condemnable practice of imposing and carrying out death sentences against protesters,” the statement said.

“The EU also calls on the authorities to annul without delay the recent death penalty sentences that were already pronounced in the context of the ongoing protests and to provide due process to all detainees,” it added.

What a shitshow. Not much better than thoughts and prayers. Maybe we need live film material of these executions to get some kind of response. I mean a “CA” on national television was enough to get a “live updates” article on CNN.

Every Iranian who has even has the slightest connections to the rulers of Iran should be deported back home. Sanctions do jack shit. The Ayatollah doesnt care as he apparently lives like a hermit so he might have not a problem with his people living a life in circumstances of great hardship.

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https://twitter.com/RobertMackey/status/1612167297476726784

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Doesn’t seem like there’s much the protestors can procedurally do, unlike the Jan 6 protestors who were working in concert with Trump’s legal faction to interfere with the electoral process.

https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1612170270122418176

At least the Trumpists were smart enough to take a shot before Biden took office, da Silva was sworn in 2 weeks ago.

This was the most predicable thing ever.

Surprised that Brazilians waited this long

https://twitter.com/samueloakford/status/1612297362919116801?s=20&t=4GkVu93NPGQWIpk4BqDf2A

https://twitter.com/araujohistorian/status/1612442066713481216?s=20&t=4GkVu93NPGQWIpk4BqDf2A

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I wish Capitol police could have used tear gas on January 6.

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Love how she gives her name and where she’s from

What an idiot