> all the major Arab spring protests were initially spark by food prices and similar failures directly affecting peoples day to day lives, Soviet Union and Mao

> all the major Arab spring protests were initially spark by food prices and similar failures directly affecting peoples day to day lives, Soviet Union and Mao's China had been able to finance industrialization and military build up through food exports at the cost of tens milions citizens lives. So it all comes to how determined and ruthless regime really is. Arab dictatorships simply got fat, soft and lazy and lost its grip on power for a time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%9333 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%...