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JDSweetBeat t1_j3knvaa wrote

Reply to Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution ["revolutions involving more violence are less at risk of counterrevolution and that this relationship exists primarily because violence lowers the likelihood of counterrevolutionary success—but not counterrevolutionary emergence"] by i_have_thick_loads

Well yeah. This is just common sense.

When you remove a group of powerful people from their power and privilege against their will, but without killing them, many of them will try to take that power and privilege back; and the more of them that are around to try and take their power and privilege back, the more resources and connections are at their disposal, and the more the new regime has to metaphorically sleep with one eye open.

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JDSweetBeat t1_j2nypww wrote

Reply to An analysis of data from 30 survey projects spanning 137 countries found that 75% of people in liberal democracies hold a negative view of China, and 87% hold a negative view of Russia. However, for the rest of the world, 70% feel positively towards China, and 66% feel positively towards Russia. by glawgii

China offers them loans with better terms than western backed loans through the IMF and World Bank, and is more likely to just forgive the debt than those western institutions. Why wouldn't they prefer China over the west?

And popular opinion of Russia is probably riding off the positive boost created by the role the Soviet Union played in the anti-colonialist movement (the USSR often gave weapons and funding to popular movements that opposed western-backed/western-controlled governments).

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