anyway, if there's anything remotely pretendable to be constructive we can learn from the HK resistance movement
it's that if you needlessly appeal to the jingoistic reactionary feelings of those in the empire opposed to the empire that's directly opposing you, hoping to find a friend in your enemy's enemy,
you will lose everything
and will have aided the oppressors in the empire you are fleeing to
and the destruction of the resistors in that other empire, who had been in a position analgous to yours
leaving you nothing to show for your efforts but the scorn of all but the worst people in a strange land