> The Arab Spring was the the high point of this positivity - a visceral example of the power of digitalised free speech.
Yes, millions of refugees is obviously not the consequence at all.
Yes, millions of refugees is obviously not the consequence at all.
But it's fair to value the act of getting freedom from oppressive regimes as a good in itself independent of the power vacuum it creates. And it's fair to assess a movement based on its priors of a possible positive outcome, rather than the purely retrospectively once they haven't come to pass.