Revolutions typically involve some level of military defection - troops refusing to fire on crowds, turning their guns around, etc. So it isn’t impossible. In the case of Iran it basically is though, because people typically don’t have revolutions when their country is in a war of national survival againt genocidal nazis.
That’s true, but there’s several problems with that: the social bubble of the people who serve in those military usually have some distance from the societal norm, violence and chaos makes the country susceptible to be picked off by special interests, and it basically means that at the end of the day their leaders have to be willing to relinquish power.
Revolutions typically involve some level of military defection - troops refusing to fire on crowds, turning their guns around, etc. So it isn’t impossible. In the case of Iran it basically is though, because people typically don’t have revolutions when their country is in a war of national survival againt genocidal nazis.
That’s true, but there’s several problems with that: the social bubble of the people who serve in those military usually have some distance from the societal norm, violence and chaos makes the country susceptible to be picked off by special interests, and it basically means that at the end of the day their leaders have to be willing to relinquish power.