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Originally Posted by scaeagles
Situations like Burma make it more and more evident to me that it probably isn't possible for populations that want freedom and/or democracy to get it. Dictators are too brutal and the technological differences in combat capabilities and weaponry make forcable revolution impossible. It is no longer like it was in the mid to late 1700s, when farmers were almost as well armed as the British military.
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We wouldn't have won without the help of the French, period. Things aren't that much different. Rarely has a suppressed population on its own with no outside help risen to win its freedom. However, equally rarely, has providing outside help to a population that has not
instigated its own revolution resulted in freedom. Whatever those odds, a successful revolution depends on there being a critical mass of people willing to, of their own accord, put their life on the line despite the risks and odds.