This ends one of 2 ways depending on the attitude of the current govt.
1. The Chinese option. Take a hard line. Send in the tanks and kill enough demonstraters to get your point across. Effective but requires a brutal and ruthless govt willing to kill its own people to stay in power.
2. The Russian Option. Concede to some demands and hope to stay in power as long as possible. Requires a govt not willing to kill thousands to stay in control. Once the people see the govt will not kill them, they make more and more demands until they force the current leaders from power. Hopefully one day we can call this the “American Option”.
Good analysis, but you forgot the Rumanian Option, which is “brutally repress the people and still end up shot dead in a gutter”
Since the protesters are large city centered, cut off their water and power for a few days.