🇨🇦Carney: "Stop. Last spring I warned you, you're trying to break Canada to own us. We're getting stronger and less dependent on America. Coast to coast, we're united." 🔥
Mark Carney is the most popular Leader in Canada 🫡
🇨🇦 Carney: "Don't challenge Canada. We fuel American growth by supplying 99% of your natural gas, 85% electricity, 60% crude oil imports. I don't think You want us to stop that."
🇮🇷 Araghchi: "We will always stand with Turkey. But Global leaders should ask why Israel keeps waging one war after another, and from where it gets so much money for war." 🔥
🇺🇸 Trump: "Canada has to do business on my terms. No other way."
🇨🇦 Carney: "Who told you that? We are permanently moving away from the US. Today I announced $500 billion in business from other markets, not the US. Do whatever you want." 🔥👏
🇯🇵 Japan is getting ready for its biggest budget ever.
Government ministries are expected to ask for more than ¥130 trillion ($818 billion) for 2027, beating the previous record of ¥122 trillion.
Japan wants to spend more on growing industries and national security, and unlike before, ministries can now ask for more money without the usual limit.
But Japan expects around ¥83 trillion in tax revenue this year, so much of the gap will likely mean more borrowing.
And Japan already has the biggest government debt among major developed countries.
So Japan wants to spend more to grow, but figuring out how to pay for all of it is the hard part.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Axios reports that roughly 40 tankers crossed the Strait of Hormuz Friday night carrying around 16 million barrels of oil, citing three U.S. officials.
But public shipping data tells a very different story. Kpler recorded just seven commodity vessels transiting on Thursday, with no large crude carriers or LNG tankers among them.
The U.S. says protected convoys are moving at night with tracking systems switched off, so dark transits could explain some of the gap. That practice is real.
But there is currently no independent confirmation of the specific 40-tanker, 16-million-barrel figure.
In Hormuz, even the ships you can’t see are now part of the story.
🇧🇩🇸🇦🇵🇰 Bangladesh might be shopping for new friends.
Dhaka's now thinking about joining the Saudi-Pakistan-Türkiye Mecca Pact, and that's a bigger deal than it sounds.
Foreign affairs adviser Humayun Kabir says they're running a "Bangladesh First" policy and have a "positive approach" toward jumping in, either on the economic side or the defence one.
Nothing's locked in yet. But if Bangladesh actually signs up, you're looking at a real shift in who it leans on, and India won't love watching that happen right on its border.
🇧🇷🇺🇸 Lula dialed Trump like a guy trying to skip the middleman.
With Rubio pressuring Brazil and the Bolsonaro clan close to Washington, Lula is going straight to the top.
The 2 presidents talked for over an hour yesterday, kept it friendly, and agreed trade still matters.
Lula’s been calling out Rubio for months as the real problem; some in the U.S. say he’s manufacturing the drama to look tough against Flávio ahead of October.
It’s the classic squeeze play.
Brazil needs the commercial ties, but the campaign runs on “nobody tells us what to do.”
So Lula keeps the door open with Trump while treating Rubio’s team like the enemy next door.
Whether that actually keeps Washington out of the race is the part nobody can promise yet.