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by MomoXenosaga 1846 days ago
So long as the military and intelligence agencies don't switch sides nothing will change.

Revolutions aren't won by the people they are won by soldiers.

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> Revolutions aren't won by the people they are won by soldiers.

While I might agree with you in these post-modern times, this is not accurate to all of history.

To all of human history it is not, but it is the overwhelming majority of cases.
The other theory are mass strikes, as seen very recently. A regime won't survive ongoing mass strikes.