Can anyone think of a case where opening fire on unarmed citizens actually caused unrest to die down? Because I can’t think of a single case. Even in Russia, the Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked off by firing on civilians.
In every case I can think of it made things worse for whoever was in charge. Aren’t there any counterexamples?
Can anyone think of a case where opening fire on unarmed citizens actually caused unrest to die down? Because I can’t think of a single case. Even in Russia, the Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked off by firing on civilians.
In every case I can think of it made things worse for whoever was in charge. Aren’t there any counterexamples?
Tiananmen square.
They want it to escalate
They think they do.
FAFO I guess
Weren’t there a couple of unrests in proxy states it the Soviet Union that were ended with violence?
uprisings in Czechoslovakia, Hungary etc? Yes very much.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kazakh_unrest