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- Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship…
- Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their…
- There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has…
- Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
- Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to…
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