{"id":1756702,"date":"2022-11-30T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756702"},"modified":"2022-11-30T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:48:28","slug":"could-russians-take-to-the-streets-and-fight-back-like-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/could-russians-take-to-the-streets-and-fight-back-like-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Russians Take to the Streets and Fight Back Like in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcould-russians-take-to-the-streets-and-fight-back-like-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756702&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/U.S.-Russia-Relations.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Vladimir Putin must be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/putin-the-loser-the-russian-military-keeps-dying-in-ukraine\/\">suffering<\/a> through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/ukraine-worries-putin-is-going-to-launch-a-missile-onslaught\/\">sleepless nights<\/a> in his bunker.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span> First, in 2020-2021, the Belarusians took to the streets to call for freedom. The Iranians followed suit in 2022, and they have not yielded despite a savage crackdown. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Now, it\u2019s the Chinese. Not the Hong-Kongers, who are well known as troublemakers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/how-do-we-beat-china-in-the-gray-zone\/\">Middle Kingdom<\/a>. No, this time it is the mainland Chinese, protesting in their thousands to question the wisdom of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/america-needs-a-real-ambassador-to-china-not-to-the-ccp\/\">Communist Party<\/a> and its supreme leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/08\/does-the-world-have-the-will-to-stop-xi-jinping\/\">Xi Jinping<\/a>. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Who\u2019s next? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/north-koreas-new-icbm-is-a-nuclear-game-changer\/\">North Koreans<\/a>? Or, worse, the Russians?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Unstable Authoritarianism<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span>Putin\u2019s authoritarian allies are facing a remarkable degree of instability. That wasn\u2019t supposed to happen. After all, Russia\u2019s supreme leader knows that authoritarian rule beats democracy every time. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>So, why the protests? Why these weird demands for freedom, of all things? The Ukrainian revolutions of 2004 and 2014 were of course the handiwork of the vile West and its leader, the United States. But while it\u2019s perfectly possible for the Central Intelligence Agency to bamboozle those foolish Ukrainians, a people who lack the good sense to realize their country doesn\u2019t exist, can the CIA\u2019s grasp really extend into those bastions of people\u2019s democracy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/irans-rogue-regime-is-collapsing-time-for-a-provisional-government\/\">Iran<\/a> and China? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What is the world coming to?<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>What worries Putin most is the possibility that a Russian insurrection may now be just as probable as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/28\/china-zero-covid-us-criticizes-beijing-supports-right-to-protest.html\">uprisings<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/26\/middleeast\/iran-supreme-leader-praises-crackdown-intl\/index.html\">Iran<\/a> and China. The Chinese case is especially troubling for him. After all, in contrast to Russia\u2019s elites, the Chinese Communists have delivered a high standard of living for many of their people. They\u2019ve also played the nationalist card extremely well, seemingly persuading much of the population that democracy was neither necessary nor desirable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Russia\u2019s Turn to Turn on Dear Leader<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span>Now the ungrateful Chinese are not only protesting the Party\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/3753324-covid-lockdown-protests-in-china-rattle-us-world-markets\/\">COVID-19 policy<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 they are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-covid-cases-hit-fresh-record-high-after-weekend-protests-2022-11-28\/\">demanding freedom<\/a>. The Chinese looked prosperous, passive, and peaceful. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>If even such people could be dissatisfied enough to risk their lives by challenging Xi\u2019s iron-fisted rule, then why not the Russians? <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Lord knows, their sons and husbands are dying by the thousands in Ukraine. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/russia-is-in-sanctions-hell-thanks-to-putins-war-in-ukraine\/\">Russian economy<\/a> is contracting, and all that Putin and his minions can suggest is that still more Russians should be sent to the front as cannon fodder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>China\u2019s rebellion may be snuffed out, or it may lead to change. But the movement, along with the Belarusian and Iranian uprisings, shows that the world\u2019s authoritarian regimes are in serious trouble. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>In all three cases, the demonstrations were sparked by random events that outraged people. Russia\u2019s turn to rebel will come when the Russian army\u2019s creeping defeat in Ukraine generates the spark that ignites a conflagration.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>A 19FortyFive Contributing Editor,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newark.rutgers.edu\/about-us\/have-you-met-rutgers-newark\/alexander-motyl\">Dr. Alexander Motyl<\/a> is a professor of political science at Rutgers-Newark. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires, and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction, including Pidsumky imperii (2009); Puti imperii (2004); Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (2001); Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities (1999); Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism (1993); and The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919\u20131929 (1980); the editor of 15 volumes, including The Encyclopedia of Nationalism (2000) and The Holodomor Reader (2012); and a contributor of dozens of articles to academic and policy journals, newspaper op-ed pages, and magazines. He also has a weekly blog, \u201cUkraine\u2019s Orange Blues.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin must be suffering through sleepless nights in his bunker. First, in 2020-2021, the Belarusians took to the streets to call for freedom. 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