How Revolutions Really Work

dictators face a dilemma from North Korea simulated a nuclear attack being taken from the execution room to The Gallows [Music] imagine for a second you're a very beloved not at all propagandized dictator of a moderately sized but poor and undeveloped country and your neighbors are starting to get ahead of you militarily and economically and you cannot be left behind you might even want to be a nicer country the tourists actually want to come to and not see pop-up Villages full of paid actors well you've got to invest in your economy and Military don't you you've got to get people educated expand the government encourage private Enterprise and get other countries to invest in and trust in you but you wake up in a sweat in the middle of the night because an educated organized wealthier people with foreign connections and elaborate State institutions that don't entirely depend on you hasn't worked out that well for dictators in the past and it'd mean they're more capable of opposing you than they ever were before modernization is great until your country is so modern that you've suddenly been deposed with 23 Democratic stabs in the back democracy this is the problem facing North Korea and Kim Jong-un right now modernizing might be essential but it also might mean the end of your Dynasty modernizing might mean a revolution as part of my research for this video and to understand conflict and revolution in the real world I watched real-life laws modern conflict series covering things like the Yemen Civil War Afghanistan Isis have a euromaiden revolution led to what we're seeing in Russia and Ukraine now and you can watch all of that too over on nebula today's sponsor which you can check out with my link down in the description below thank you so much if you do part one the spark of Revolution look the dystopian why a revolution era is close and dear to my heart too but we all love to think that we're the chosen one Divergent other girl who escaped the ceremony to lead the revolution Against The Institute when we're probably not and revolutions don't work like that revolutions have complex causes and often for not great reasons and not in the ways we imagine a lot of revolutionary stories in fact the US military has published a whole bunch of stuff on this and highlights five things that create the circumstances of revolution proximates socioeconomic instability alienation Elite infighting international support and Injustice now the dictator's dilemma comes up so much in real world revolutions because modernizing creates all of this so it creates socioeconomic opportunity but it also highlights existing instability and leads to income inequality and it creates and empowers new factions in society that are not you the dictator these people are more socially mobile than before and not entirely dependent on the state and their interests are not necessarily aligned with yours North Korea has actually opened special economic zones to help their economy but it hasn't really done a huge amount and if North Korea allows people to leave for foreign businesses to invest then yeah it helps the economy but it also means Kim Jong-un doesn't have an iron grip on where the money is going and to whom lifting censorship helps with education and political participation but it also allows descent to spread which is exactly what happened in Egypt before Mubarak fell modern noising can also spark Elite infighting you know others who are currently in the inner Circles of power have every reason to try and stop a country liberalizing which is often what happens when it modernizes to take control themselves because they're seeing their slice of the pie shrink this is often the case of the military you know who helped keep the dictator in power for so long we've seen this thousands of times before right where powerful factions and an oppressive regime overthrow the current one but just take it over themselves and offer Democratic idealistic reasons though they'll often paint it that way after the fact you know oh oh we we overthrew the dictator and now we'll be the safeguards of the constitution for the next while till we can organize elections whenever that may be need I remind you that this is the map of the world that claims to be democracies it dictator opening up also allows foreign powers to exert more influence over the economy the People The Narrative to support factions of their choosing and that threatens your power base the only option in the end becomes repression if you want to hold on to power over time you alienate people more and more those who keep you in power and the people who want to get into the circles of power and suddenly Bingo it's Mormon time the dictated dilemma is just a one-way revolutions happen but it's a fast an example of why revolutions are just oh what's the word it's complicated let's take a look at these causes and five ways we can imagine a revolution when World building part two proximate socioeconomic instability when we write revolutions we tend to focus a lot on this last Point Injustice think of the death of Rue in The Hunger Games an innocent girl slaughtered at the hands of an oppressive regime sparking revolutions all across panim anger and Justice right it's a black and white narrative that's easily communicated that we as the audience can get behind that we can feel empowered by but the truth is Injustice tends to actually be a framework that gets attached to pre-existing socio-economic instability giving it momentum as shared vision and an easy message for a lot of people to get behind after all Injustice happens all the time in autocratic societies people are beaten and murdered and disappear off the face of the Earth and we don't see Rebellion at every turn of this especially the more and more that Injustice becomes normal every day accept it like the 2011 Egyptian revolution so the fall of Hosni Mubarak after three decades of power and though the narrative was a lot about police brutality and rights the long-term causes were really about economic instability income inequality stagnant wages huge debt youth unemployment which made daily life impossible for a lot of people what matters more are those first four factors and then the Injustice that comes out of them and this is by the way not just in individuals having inconsistent access to basic needs and opportunity but typically when communities are deprived of it or feeling exploited more and more as Time Marches On be it regions sectors of the economy age groups ethnic groups and so on and this is also the fiscal and social instability of the elites and the powerful not that they're like Starving in the streets but that they can't collect rent or taxes or suddenly other socially mobile groups are way more influential than them or they feel that their wealth and power isn't protected and they can't be guaranteed it could be taken away from them at any moment either by the dictator or the population you've got to win large groups of young people are unable to get a job there's that shared narrative because you yes you tanked the economy or if your local community your region is particularly affected and you organize around that but of of course lots of things cause instability War disease shifts in power new injustices the question is whether that anger can be directed away from the system so World War One introduced a ton of instability to European societies and in Russia that anger ended up directed at the tsar and the aristocracy and it did lead to Revolution in 1917 while Britain yeah there was some instability that led to like people demanding rights to vote a true shift in power but it also saw a huge rise in nationalistic further while in Russia everyone's like ah we're in the stupid War because of the Tsar Iran and Britain's like ah we're in this war because of why are we in this war well it's not the government Brian mcclellan's promise of blood highlights how militaries choosing not to fight for the state or turning on the state is pretty essential to a lot of revolutions and coups because militaries are nothing if not well organized machines and communities and if they as a community can be mobilized or demobilized then the foundations of the regime's power can be undone but let's focus on the first part of this cause proximate socio-economic instability because the reality is people don't necessarily respond to instability that they don't experience or they don't feel is kind of part of their Community their world and this can be because it affects a different part of the country or a different class to you or a different kind of people different infinite group to you instead it becomes you know these euphemistic descriptions of regional agricultural problems when they're starving to death or violent thugs terrorizing the streets after they've just been massacred by the police recently although de-radicalizing terrorists when they're putting children into concentration camps to eradicate their culture the thing is all autocratic systems still need to make the factions keeping them in power happy be it the Nobles the military the rich the church and even to some extent the working population you know you've got to have someone working for you some regions or factions might be insulated because of this from certain kinds of instability to keep them more loyal to the government if you can make sure that the people producing your oil are happy and you can sell that oil to other countries well you'll be perfectly fine for the most part and this can lead to really interesting World building quirks where like okay Thailand and turkey have a flawed democracy where the military will intervene if they don't like the outcome they've done that historically so even these semi-democrat Credit Systems have to placate the military it's interesting The Hunger Games adapts this to its World building too so the capital gives special privileges to districts one and two even though they're subordinate even though they start to participate in the games because it creates a buffer zone between them and the other districts and because this is where a lot of their military is drawn from it's what keeps them in power so we can see this connection between how the state insulates certain groups of people from socioeconomic instability and Injustice and how they keep themselves in power but take that away and you get what we saw in 1984 in the Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos sent a tank Battalion to crush a supposed Revolt but when they were met with nuns kneeling with rosaries and children offering the soldiers food and water the soldiers refused to fight over 80 percent of the military defected and this immediately led to the fall of Marcus's regime so one way you can think of revolutions it's not just in terms of Injustice or ideology but in terms of proximate socio-economic instability that changes the relationships that communities have with those in power and the foundations of that power figuring out how that is eroded through the changes in these relationships figure out who is going to be more loyal to the regime as it is and what kind of instability Injustice or circumstances could change that right inconsistent pension payments being repeatedly overlooked for cabinet positions being forced to kill peaceful protesters one thing to note is that instability does not necessarily mean everyone's getting poorer or worse off it often does but income inequality is one of those things we mentioned in the dictator's dilemma the sense that there's a whole group of people getting way better off and a whole lot of people that aren't it's also the sense that your way of life the way things have been is being really disrupted and you don't feel safe and secure and this is both at the elite level and the porous level like the industrial revolution saw a huge economic growth all across Europe and the emergence of a class of wealthier people but that rapid shift also introduced instability disruption and undermined communities and forced migration it saw the intensification of colonial repression across the world instability is just as much about the sense of your life being in flux and a feeling of change outside of your control and this period was also fertile ground for revolutionary sentiment challenging existing power structures the way things have worked it lead to the age of Revolution America France Serbia Spain Italy Greece Belgium Haiti the Netherlands Poland all across Latin America exploding in Revolution and then again in 1848 as one this wealthier class demanded more concessions more rights more power as they grew with this instability and two working conditions for the poor got even worse you know the children meant to be learning for the minds and whatever but work was unstable and that sentiment could be harnessed that uneven economic development is actually really important as a cause this is actually a Hallmark of the emerging Flintlock fantasy genre which centers a lot on Revolution like a Django wixler's the thousand names you know it looks at the economic disparity that emerges in response to these revolutionary Technologies and also I think it's really interesting that that's coming out now in the modern day when income inequality and so on is a huge element of the political discussions that we have you're seeing those same sentiments coming out in the fiction that we discuss and write so if you want to incorporate that into your word building you know there's there's commentary there communities with New Wealth can motivate political change because they feel the old system doesn't really serve them and that is what happens when an dictator tries to modernize so you're looking at both people being better off and worse off and the contrast between them this is also something we see in cyberpunk stories now which again are seeing a Resurgence where the Uber Rich want to overthrow democracy and the poor want to overthrow them part three Injustice just like anger for socioeconomic instability can be directed outwards away from the regime so can Injustice including back at the victims themselves you've seen this a thousand times before with a innocent protesters being shot or with a radical Rebels and citing violence in our streets our enemy is an Insidious one seem to divide us uighur Muslims are famously in detention camps in China right now to supposedly combat quote religious extremism a narrative that a lot of people in China buy into because of how the state has framed this Injustice and they've done similar things to Tibetan culture in the past as well ethnic religious Regional lines can be powerful narratives to justify repression and sources of community instability and Injustice that in turn motivate Revolt Children of Men has one of the most horrific and grounded depictions of this kind of instability and though it frames it more as societal collapse than Revolution it could easily turn out that way of course one thing that is often ignored in fiction is that revolutions introduce instability and Injustice to a region like Studies have shown that if Rebels are the ones who are bombing your area causing gunfire fights in the streets you probably think that they're the source of the instability and you're more likely to side with the regime killing a few uppity protesters here and there isn't the worst Injustice compared to your neighbor getting shot and mauled to death three weeks ago especially because revolutions are going to Target logistical centers government buildings Bridges Railways all of which are manned and used by everyday civilians makes their life hell as well so when we're building people might turn against the Revolutionary cause if they feel like their lives are being torn apart For No Good Reason by them even if the cause is a good one so in that way it is about controlling the narrative who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed one detail I really like in Legend of Korra is how tala cracks down on non-benders in the face of this equalist revolution aiming to supposedly remove binders entirely non-benders weren't necessarily behind them on at this point they kind of viewed him as the source of instability the one who was causing these terrorist attacks until this happened until these policies came into force in which case their indignation turned against tarlock a bending government regime councilman and Benders more broadly empowering the equalis and leading to a bigger Revolution it's pretty compelling to feel the people are always going to fight for what's right but the reality is people can become the targets of revolutions without necessarily doing much wrong and that can change how it's viewed how the story of the revolution is told how the events are recounted around the country so this is a second way you can World build revolutions as a chain or perception of injustices who would different factions realistically blame for what is going on especially during the lead-up to Revolution who would buy into which narratives who would spread which narratives and how does injustice intersect with a community pre-existing instabilities and problems part 4 alienation being alienated from a national communities institutions the legal social cultural political is a really powerful motivator because suddenly you feel outside the system you don't feel part of it you don't think you should respect it you think you should change it and this is again for the privileged and the underprivileged and we've seen the latter do this like dozens of times right 1954 for Vietnam and the French Algeria did the same in 1962 1949 so Indonesia free itself of Dutch roll Zimbabwe in 1979 from British rule Colonial Powers alienated the people they were governing and actively repressed to them alienation is why so many revolutions or partition movements have been down religious or ethnic lines hoping to carve out a section of a country for that one group who don't feel part of the system rebelling against the government and doing so like the 1959 Tibetan Uprising against China but it's also down class and cultural Lines within a country like the many communist Revolutions of the 20th century are the best examples right but groups in your world might be defined by other things by the type of magic they use by their role in history all sorts the point is you're still looking for how communities of people are alienated from the centers of power in all of these cases a regional dialectal ethnic religious community is being either erased or severely disadvantaged or excluded from the system cut out of it so that their problems can't be fixed within it and so Revolution becomes the answer so again you're wanting to look for what problems are they needing solved that aren't being addressed and will never be addressed the OPA and James you say Corey's the expense takes this and runs with it the belters live out on the asteroid belt in this kind of semi-nomadic life but I mean they've felt ignored and exploited by Mars and Earth for resources and turn to Revolution in because they have been cut out of the systems of power they're seen as pawns their identity is not accommodated for and much of the series is dedicated to them trying to find recourse inside the system and when that doesn't work then secession is the only answer but this also means that if the regime can convince people that there will be recourse inside the system then they won't feel alienated not as much instead there might be some paper-thin concessions and you'll often see that there's a history of concessions being given or deals being made and then broken and then redone and eventually people lose Faith a big part of growing alienation is also demographic change a rapidly growing ethnic groups or a huge generational group of young people you know appearing elsewise these all create a sense of instability and a need for change uh alienated by an older system that wasn't necessarily built for them but critically okay critically it is just as important if not more so to figure out when the privileged factions within Society feel alienated or unjustly excluded pour them from the circles of power they are the ones with the money and the power to kick-start something they're equally just as often a squabble between the Elites for not getting what they want like we saw this in Russia just a few weeks ago the Wagner group a private military organization that fights for Russia led by a dude called pregosian uh attempted what was basically a coup against Putin and the higher defense Ministry officials but they framed it of course they framed it as a March for justice uh when it was really just a power struggle between the Russian Elite circles because pregosian kind of hated the defense minister Shogun wanted someone else in power he's been criticizing him for months he he thinks he does it better than all of the Russian military officials pagosian is not a good guy but people seemed to welcome him because of the framing that they gave it Robert's rebellion in George R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire is that Mythic Revolution with a noble Lords overthrew the Mad King who was burning people alive there's the Injustice but it also turned on alienation so Tywin Lannister betrayed the Mad King at the last moment Rising up in Revolution with Robert partly because he knew he had to do this if he wanted to stay within the circles of Robert's new regime but he actually already felt alienated from the circles of the Mad King's power after serving loyally for years and being spited for it Tywin Lannister was opportunistic here because the Mad King took Jaime his one ear and made him a kingsguard so he couldn't have a kid this Elite infighting is in one way kanawat brought the Mad King down and alienation by the way doesn't need to be active repression doesn't need to be police totality in the streets you know beating people down and shooting them in executions in public it can be cultural exclusion you know the sense that a country tells a group of people an ethnic group or a religious group you are not who we are and so we don't accommodate for you inside the system or there might be a region that's been left behind economically that the government just doesn't care for that can be a really powerful feeling of alienation that your problems just aren't being addressed and that can turn into more revolutionary sentiment there's often this huge divide in the lead-up to Revolution over working to change the system from within versus changing the system with Revolution what pushes one group in your Society or the other into the latter it's radical right that alienation has to be Stark enough so this is a third way to think about Revolution how underprivileged communities are progressively passively or actively alienated or repressed by the regime and how privileged communities feel alienated from the levels of power and seek to change that by force how would these two feelings Collide because you gotta often have them at the same time that's where this revolution Sparks right one of them's the matchbox and one of them's the match stick part 5 community and Elite infighting we've talked a little bit about this in alienation but Elite infighting matters because of organizational capacity the reason revolutions spring up around communities is that communities can be organized unions churches the military local governments all of these have pre-existing structures that make it easier to organize resources and movements and troops and ideas and Elites are the people in power who have connections and organizational capacity and wealth and influence to mobilize these communities hell Lenin was upper middle class half the students who Rebel in Les Mis are from noble families they've got time to be idealistic that growing middle class gives people to do more than suffered down in the mines for pennies every day figure out what gives Revolution its organizational capacity because it can't just spring out of nowhere and how do the interests of these different groups connect because they might not have the same priorities just the same end game the regime Must Fall Margaret Edwards books the handmaid's tale and the Testaments have Revolution kind of as an afterthought they're in the background but one of the most interesting parts of these books is they have these kind of like epilogue chapters where there's a PR a professor giving like a lecture on Gilead history speculating about how it fell and the politics of it and kind of a sociological commentary really and it's actually a really insightful read for World building autocratic societies how they both maintain themselves when they're around how unstable they really are and how they eventually collapse how that all of that of course is inevitably going to happen she focuses though on purges within the a system within the higher-ups that Elite infighting the release of this information touched off the so-called Bal Purge the finned the ranks of the Elite Class weakened the regime and instigated a military push as well as a popular Revolt the Civil strife and Chaos that resulted enabled a campaign coordinated by the MayDay resistance and a series of successful attacks by those resentful of the massacre of the Mormons and she returns to this idea of The Purge over and over the elites hanging each other for immorality or violating the Gilead code Mayday the resistance is actually portrayed as kinda helpless until the elites turn on each other enough until there's enough instability in their ranks in the first place there's even a focus on Injustice here that gives the revolution a narrative you know uniting them people don't quite realize how powerful states are and how difficult Revolution really is if you're just going up against a fully fledged state power even a dictatorship you know it's why cracks within the actual regime are so important a lot of the time we see that breakdown of social relations in Gilead over the two books and proximate socioeconomic instability is just a constant backdrop for the story how expensive food is how everything's rationed out the simple pleasure of a hot egg the TV series which is okay for the most part actually explores the dictator's dilemma in Gilead as well one Commander wants Gilead to liberalize and open up to improve the economy and have fewer human rights abuses by creating a new city for people to live more freely and a little outside their censorship this is all in hopes of alleviating International pressure getting International Aid and undermine the rebels that they're constantly fighting you know because if they can say hey this is an incredibly unjust place to live in because they can point to the city and say hey there's not all these injustices that you're saying but it also creates a bid for resistance and free thought other factions in Gilead sees on this though as supposed weakness sparking more in fighting and purges foreshadowing what is to come this is a fourth way to think about World building revolutions about the competing interests of the Elites in ideological differences or social economic or religious policy and all of this brings out other instabilities injustices and causes alienation within the ranks and eventually align some of them with revolutionary interests part 6 international support did you know the CIA had a manual on how to assassinate politicians as part of fostering Rebellion it's called the study of assassination and it included how to select targets which methods are most effective and what the hell to do if it all goes wrong including admitting that assassination orders should never be committed to records or paper of course I asked the CIA and they've never used it which is really good because I was worried for a second but if they did you could really imagine how International interference could really undermine the regime and Foster chaos in the ranks weakening the regime to other pressures see if you can't feed your soldiers communicate your movements organize strikes and uprisings or arm them resupply them then having a righteous cause isn't going anywhere Logistics are way more important than any righteous cause or determination you might have I actually quite like the new series and or for this over and over the Rebellion just fails and the Empire is just basically one step ahead and we get this real sense that putting together the organizational capacity is the bigger challenge of rebellion the Empire on the other hand is just this logistical Behemoth it's no wonder that one-on-one and wins every single time assassinations make Logistics Harder by fostering infighting and oppressive systems and removing links in a chain but the reason international support is so important to Revolutions is that much like Elites foreign powers can fund arm and supply people in another country which I mean I haven't checked it but I assume that always turns out well in fact I can't even imagine any bad consequences coming from that a terror group Isis attacking a prison facility in Syria but you've got to wonder right this mind-boggling question why why spend all these resources to just give them to another country to a revolutionary force that might not even win well the US military has written about that as well and they talk about funding insurgencies first as a tool of disruption to isolate destabilize or undermine the Authority or legitimacy of a hostile government by disrupting their assets resources military capabilities economic Warfare right the publication speaks of one attempt to disrupt Soviet Supply and oil lines in the 50s by assisting the Romanian peasants party uh it failed in fact if if you read the publication you see that the U.S failed a lot almost universally to a Darkly comedic level but the point is they tried and you get points for that right Germany didn't send Lenin back to Russia during World War one because they thought Russia deserved to give communism a shot but because it could help Russia revolt and get them out of the war in fact it got them one of the most brutal treaties in Europe the Treaty of Barista fosk which gave them all of this land oh goodness could you could you imagine could you imagine if Germany was made to sign like a like a treaty that was as bad as that for him God I mean that would that would have some consequences I assume they talk about international support as a tool of coercion you know forcing a government into concessions or a change in policy you know this can be to coerce access to resources or trade deal to make them do something in the region sometimes backing someone that they think will actually give them a better deal it's kind of like a threat and thirdly international support is a tool of regime change which again I assume just always goes well to create a quote more ideologically favorable Ally this can be mixed in with the promise of Liberation and even if partly true historically countries have interests as well trade deals International hegemony influence and power basically it's not always out of the goodness of their heart this is a fifth way to Envision World building Revolution what do other countries want what do their neighbors want how would their support shape the revolution its policies its successes its losses and the world that comes after the iron bank in Brown of us in A Song of Ice and Fire is a great example of this kind of World building they lend money to countries or states and if the state doesn't pay them back they fund revolutions against them and they give money to people who do promise to pay it back in A Dance with Dragons they agree to support Stannis for the Iron Throne a man famous for keeping his word after Robert's Rule put the crown in millions in death that they never intend to really pay back that's using Civil War as a tool of coercion and regime change on the other hand in the expanse Mars enters into an uneasy short-term alliance with the OPA to at least undermine Earth's axis to asteroid resources and give them leverage there's disruption and coercion on the other hand neighboring countries might consider opposing revolutionary efforts and supporting and even autocratic regime no matter how bad they are or how righteous the revolution really is because they don't want an unstable war-torn neighbor who who they need to trade with or depend on economically currently Sudan is heading for a civil war between two rival Elite factions Libya has picked a side with the rsf but mostly because of the economic and Military ties they have with the rsf regime more than any righteous reasons it'll help Olivia's own dictator stay in power as well on the other hand Egypt actually more naturally aligns with the saf but has to play pretty safe because of how economically dependent they are on the network of allies connected to the rsf which signs your neighboring country's full on is not just a moral choice all of this is why dictators are so often reluctant to allow International influence in their countries in their Arena even you know because it tends to end up with coercion disruption and potentially regime change so one answer to the dictator's dilemma is they band together in a fellowship of police brutality they have this rational Mutual survival interest China might intervene to stop a revolution North Korea not because they love the way the country is currently run but because they don't want an ideologically opposed State on their border there while the US might fund a revolution there for geopolitical reasons in the same way that they have in the past other places part 7 Breaking Point okay so you're a very beloved not at all propagandized dictator of a moderately sized but poor country you tried to modernize and now you've got some growth but you've also got some growing income inequality and you've highlighted a lot of pre-existing economic instability you've alienated your allies in the military who now want you gone and are blaming you for all of the atrocities they helped you out with anyway the poor feel you aren't addressing their problems and have a right to say something now stupid poor people and other countries are now cutting deals with other factions for oil supplies or a shift in Economic Policy what do you do the way you used to solve problems in the past which was mostly by shooting people isn't working so much anymore concessions Aren't Enough punishments only spur on Revolt resistance takes longer and longer to put down and sometimes it doesn't get put down at all sending in the military is less reliable there's less money for you to pay people off economic measures don't stop spiraling you stop censoring the press and the internet but that just spreads the revolutionary ideas even more suddenly you're sitting on a throne of newspaper and a lot of people have matches in their hands think about how your regime has maintained order and solved problems in the past with bribes with the military with spies and manipulation or concessions and why do those methods stop working so much anymore why are they working less and less and you've got to think about by the way all of these causes in terms of them being structural so long term and immediate you know something that actually Sparks that people respond to emotionally that gets them involved it gets things going short term and long term revolutions might happen overnight but they ferment for years and they have multiple causes multiple reasons multiple historical readings that you can look back on there's no one definitive explanation that's what I'm trying to get across with all of this great world building means your world can be explained in multiple ways revolutions are Brewing all over the real world and the horrors we're seeing right now in Russia and Ukraine are deeply connected to the Ukrainian revolution of dignity in 2013 as well as the revolts funded by Russia in Donetsk and luhansk for geopolitical reasons which they frame wrongly as revolutions against an oppressive power but are really about Russian expansionism and I think it'd be really useful for you to learn more about that in real life laws video on Russia and Ukraine before 2022. it's a fascinating look at how complex revolutions can be and you can learn a lot for your world building that video is available at the link down below over on nebula see us creators we are nebula yep us this person and a whole bunch of others and given how I just made a video on how AI is working its way into creative spaces I would love you to support us as human individuals the Russian Ukraine video is part of a whole series called modern conflicts and nebula also comes with a 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is a powerful force and Revolution be it down ethnic religious or other lines or alienation from the circles of power for the elites this can be through passive policy making cultural norms or active repression 4. Elite infighting and international support is fundamental to mobilizing and logistical management as well as weakening the existing regime how do these interests Collide and with what instabilities what do neighboring countries want 5. identify the long-term structural causes of the Revolution and the immediate transient ones that set it off all of these causes create an unstable equilibrium where the usual ways of dealing with social problems and no longer as effective stay noted my friends and if you haven't got it yet go get on running World building Volume 2 because volume 3 is coming at the end of the year oh uh and I'll see you in the future that's right I have catch phrases I have to say foreign

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