Ecellent last post WR6133 and and I'm in agreement. Civil disobedience and peaceful protest will bring down a regime, but as you point out it is unlikely to result in any major change. Unfortunately, revolutions/rebellions are usually messy affairs. We only have to look around all corners of the globe to witness violent struggles of disenfranchised populations. Ukraine's future is balanced on a knife-edge and we could all get sucked in if it escalated.