We need less Chemo and Surgery and more "Voom."

[ganulv]

Look, a singer can probably push a regime over the brink with a popular song and music video that's on almost all smartphones in the country and copied like a virus.

The thing is that it is typically only in retrospect that we know that the regime was on the brink!

[Fuchs]

People with close-up knowledge of the country in question often sense such developments 'a bit' earlier than the foreign public.

Your foreign politicians won't get such news in their intel dossiers in time if your intelligence agency co-operates industriously with the dictator's domestic intelligence agency, of course.