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[reaperducer]

How much have they changed their minds in the last few days?

Enough that there are protests in most major Russian cities against the invasion of Ukraine.

Just yesterday, Moscow police arrested over 1,000 protesters. They can only keep up that pace for so long.

[Andrew_nenakhov → reaperducer]

The protests won't last long. Any protester risks getting a few years sentence going out every time, and russian prisons are hell on earth.

[throw7 → reaperducer]

Really? non-democratic regimes have proved again and again that the plebes can be contained.

[jacquesm → reaperducer]

Not until there are more protestors than the police can conceivably arrest will it make a real difference, but there is some chance of that happening.

[vkou → reaperducer]

150,000 people in Washington, DC, protested the Iraq war when it was getting started.

It, uh, didn't accomplish much. I'm not sure that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is any more inclined to listen to protests than the Department of State was.

[nomel → reaperducer]

> They can only keep up that pace for so long.

Sorry, do you mean the protestors can only keep it up for so long, or the police can only keep arresting for so long?

[pessimizer → reaperducer]

This can't be true, because this thread started off with

> In repressive regimes there is no freedom to protest. You cannot have hypocrisy in how you deal with political protests if you do not have political protests!

[jacquesm → pessimizer]

They are arrested wholesale.