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Many dictators have been deposed not because they were weak, but because their subjects grew tired of lies and life under their rule.

Gadaffi, Sisi, Ceaușescu, Romanovs were not weak by any objective measure, they were happy to suppress dissent and kill their subjects and still had a functioning security apparatus when deposed, ordinary citizens just refused to cooperate. If almost the entire civilian population refuses to cooperate, regimes cannot function.



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