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Against foreign militaries.

Even if you are right, that would imply that the US would enter a protacted civil war that would impoverish everyone. I have a feeling popular support would swing away from the millitias very quickly, just how long do you think millenials will survive without their avocados, yoga classes and fair trade locally brewed artisanal beer.

Romania...

Edit: hilarious, I'm getting downvoted for pointing out that the toppling of communism in Romania was very violent. Never expected HN to be a red block stronghold. Kind of hilarious.

As they would say, Communism was never "done properly". The next implementation would be "the one that works"

This line of thinking never made sense to me.

How are you going to defend against SWAT teams with whatever guns you have?

Organize a militia? Then how do you defend against the army?

> I surmise the the government will be able to exploit the massive data collection on the ground after things settle down.

True, the deadliest enemies are invisible.

I bet that at this moment at least 10 universities in mainland China are using the massive surveillance data being collected (security cameras, phone location data, ...) to figure out how to track protestors back.

And even if there is no true leader, surely there are a bunch of people who are more lider-ish than the rest. Some networking analysis, like NSA pioneered surely can be applied here.

China has the time advantage, Hong Kong is not going anywhere. A brutal Chinese intervention would be the worse possible mistake for China to make, it will be hard for the West to ignore that. But keep the policing relatively low key, and the other countries don't have an in angle.