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@kkarhan@infosec.space @Redfuchs@furries.club The former CIA director ADMITTED that the Obama administration believed the Arab Spring would be a positive movement for democracy and ended up being an opportunity for Al Qaeda and Daesh. He didn't admit to helping but when the CIA sees a revolution as potentially helpful, they tend to get involved.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/5/17/arab-spring-was-really-a-spring-for-al-qaeda

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@kkarhan@infosec.space @Redfuchs@furries.club Also yeah, probably a good thing it didn't catch on in Europe. It would have been an easy opening for fascists. You can't build democracy from a few weeks of chaos.

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@threetails@mastodon.social @Redfuchs@furries.club point is in Europe people don't usually get their livelyhood criminalized and pushed to suicide by autocrats.
Okay, exceptions do exist, but as we know from "Rules for Rulers" most people come to the conclusion: "The math says no" when it comes to doing a coup.