Most revolutions involve some violence, yes. Would you prefer that people permanently submit to tyranny? In the American Revolution our founding fathers were certainly glad to receive arms from their foreign allies in order to fight the British.
It's easy to fill a plaza with people. And Minsk's regime is terrible. But I was duped into supporting the Iraq war in '03. with the promise that we'd be greeted as liberators. I remember the young men shaving their beards in Kandahar. Look how those turned out.
I'm not making that mistake again.
Don't you think this way it's an even bigger reason for an rapid, overwhelming action to stem any chance of it.
Russia will not be happy at all to start losing more than disposable mercenaries for the first time.
It's by far the surest way to regime change Russia, without an open, direct conflict — to make Putin commit to a big war which he can't win, nor retreat from.
It's very important to make him to activate Russian standing military, so the people can't be made to "unsee" the fact of Russian state involvement.
The easier the victory will look for them, the more they will commit, the harder it will be for them to pull out.
Ah, Ok. Another country to bring democracy and freedom to. I really thought that by this time we have learned our lesson - but I guess not - God help us.
A lot of people were on the streets protesting election results on January 6th. Was it OK then?