There's room for nuance here, though -- while "democracy via revolution" is a good backstop[1], it's self-evidently a higher-friction method of regime change th

There's room for nuance here, though -- while "democracy via revolution" is a good backstop[1], it's self-evidently a higher-friction method of regime change than electoral democracy. People in the USA or EU are more responsible for their government than Russians. [1] Interestingly the French Declaration of the Rights of Man from 1789 includes the right of "resistance to oppression"