Dictators will always fail if the folks turn on themNope.
Dictators fall when their security forces, particularly the army, turn on them.
They remain in power as long as enough armed people are willing to kill others for them. Power grows out of the barrel of a gun, in the final analysis.
Which is why who controls the guns is so critically important.
True, true. However if there are sufficient numbers the weapons the Army would use to put down the protests can change hands and then the regime comes down. What these folks are doing is daring the regime to put the weapons in front of them.
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