• XbSuper@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Because the only way to force change in a country, is to push it’s people to make that change. It mught not be pretty, but it’s reality.

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      And what power do Russian expatriots have to effect change in their home country exactly? Huge numbers left precisely because they disagree with the politics, which poses a huge demographic problem for Russia. Forcing them to go back would be counterproductive, not to mention plain xenophobic.

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      You can’t simultaneously call Russia an authoritarian dictatorship and say that its people have the power to change the country’s trajectory.

      Because the only way to force change in a country, is to push it’s people to make that change.

      The correct way to say this is: “the only way to force change in a country, is to push the people who can make change to make that change”.

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        Because authoritarian dictators have never been overthrown by their people? Not entirely disagreeing with you, it’s a big hurdle to overcome for change but it does happen in plenty of countries