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"Pressuring" civilians into standing up to armed interior police willing to use lethal force and torture, in order to effect regime change, seems of questionable morality.

We change regimes in democracies by voting.

They change regimes in autocracies by dying.

That doesn't feel like a fair expectation.



Life isn't fair. Russia invading Ukraine wasn't fair.

In order to change the government of a dictatorship, someone would need to take the initiative to overthrow the government. This could be ordinary people, but the military or elites would have the best chance of pulling it off. But, there needs to be some pressure to change, or everyone will keep muddling along as things are.


I am not sure you could make this statement and also be consistent.

For example, are you in favor to repeal the American with Disabilities Act. What about repealing Medicaid ? or to end progressive taxation ?

If any of your answers is no, then you aren't being consistent, and it is likely that re-examining your position is warranted.


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How did you pick those particular things??? What???????

Edit: Oh, I think I get it, you're conflating "Sometimes there is no fair solution." with "Nobody should ever try to be fair." or something like that. That's a ridiculous argument, then.


Can you elaborate? I'm not sure how you think regime change in autocracies can happen any other way. It's not like autocrats listen to people and go, "my bad; I'll change my direction now." History suggests that only violent overthrow can effectuate that, with a few exceptions where a foreign invader was able to execute the autocrat, or where the autocrat knew they were backed into a corner and the choice was to flee or be killed. Either way, it's violent and terrible.

As Clausewitz said, "war is politics by other means."


The vast majority of autocracies were overthrown by eroding their power bases.

"The people" are not one of Putin's power bases.

I.e., see financial sanctions.




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