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There has definitely been growing political instability in the world outside of the West, with the most probable candidate for proximate cause being widespread internet access. The internet has been a Pandora's Box for cesspool countries, since discontent spreads like wildfire and organization happens through it very easily - both of which are needed for transformative political change - and disconnecting from it is very difficult. Thus, even though Iran has threatened to make its own Intranet, and the Afghan Taliban have also tried disconnecting parts of their country from the internet, it seems that both countries are already too dependent on it.

The Arab Spring essentially spread to the Indian subcontinent, where we saw the Nepalese, Sri Lankan, and Bangladeshi governments overthrown within the span of a few years courtesy of 'Gen-Z revolutions'. The same pattern can be seen in all three countries: perception of widespread financial corruption (e.g. 'nepo babies') and an ideological move away from the Left-Wing populism of groups like the Awami League and the SLPP towards a more centrist pluralism, although many of the same old faces and groups remain in the background, and, in Sri Lanka, another faction of the old political class is still in power.

The rise of the Sahelian military regimes didn't fit the pattern, since discontent was directed more at France than at financial corruption. I wondered whether sub-Saharan Africa was somehow immune to this phenomenon. Now I suspect not, because we soon saw a Gen-Z revolution remove President Rajoelina, and while Madagascar is part-Asiatic, most of the rest of it is sub-Saharan African. That being said, I haven't yet seen any signs of the Gen-Z revolution phenomenon in mainland Africa.

But what of Latin America? I haven't seen any signs of it there either, although this video clearly shows that it's a younger demographic who are against that filthy 'Putajudia'. Could it be that Gen-Z Mexicans will overthrow the rule of the current Mexican Left, or will it amount to nothing like the recent protests in Indonesia and the Philippines?