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  • londons_explore 4 hours ago
    Almost without fail, every fall of a government is caused by external invasion or lack of food/water.

    All other issues people will complain about, but never act on en-mass.

    • hollerith 3 hours ago
      Counterexamples: fall of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Fourth Republic in France in 1954, English Civil War and the English royal restoration a few decades later.
      • marcosdumay 2 hours ago
        Well, I guess the GP should have added "the government stupidly mass-murdering its citizens at random" to the other 3 causes.

        About the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of it was caused by each one of the GP's factors and the mass-murdering. You seem to want a clear case with a well defined "fall", but theirs wasn't it (like any supranacional empire).

    • sigwinch 3 hours ago
      Syria 2006-2011, Ukraine next year