• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    Arab spring? Yeah it had some pretty bad outcomes in some places (Syria) but go look at the list of outcomes, from total overthrow of a despot, to democratisation of some states, and major government concessions and strengthening of people-power precedents in others.

    The Madian revolt in Ukraine resulted in the overthrow of a despotic Russian lackey and move towards proper democracy and European alignment.

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      total overthrow of a despot

      That was Egypt, right? It takes ten, twenty years at least for a revolution to settle into stable government. How is that going?