londons_explore 5 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 4 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 3 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 4 hours ago

    Syria 2006-2011, Ukraine next year

    • londons_explore 4 hours ago

      > The unrest coincided with the most intense drought ever recorded in Syria, which lasted from 2006 to 2011 and resulted in widespread crop failure,

      [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

      • JSteph22 4 hours ago

        The fall of the government only occurred 14 years after the end of that drought though...

        • plasmatix 3 hours ago

          Depends which part of Syria we're talking about.