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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
It’s not nonsense at all it’s logic. Your examples are different contexts different countries different leadership different histories different peoples and cultures different rationales different on and on and on.
Okay so you’re in Russia today. You’re going to go start the protest then are you? And you’re going to hope everyone follows and wager your life on it? Really? I mean I’m not saying you wouldn’t do it but hey- you got more guts than me that’s for sure.
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I think in general - as long as you aren't messing up the average citizen's life - they don't particularly care about the government. All things being equal - they may prefer something different - but as long as you don't mess with the average person and their life is going on not impacted - they will just go with the flow.
When enough average people don't feel safe or feel screwed over - they will act. Police shooting unarmed black people in the US, attacks on women in Iran and India or even inflation causing giant impacts on people (and no - we aren't even near that level of inflation in Canada) - they will lash out.
Russia is facing it from two sides now - the sanctions potentially impacting their economy and now drafting people into the army. There's a reason why they are trying to mobilize rural, poor or minority populations or the average guy in Moscow doesn't feel threatened because then they will have problems. The people who are leaving Russia now probably have more means than the people who can't just pick up and leave their family for a spell.
Russia cutting off energy to Europe is trying to get those countries to the same point - where the people in Germany or wherever in Europe say enough is enough and protest the high costs to pressure the governments to capitulate to Russia.