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Re: by indymike on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:51AM (#36430707)
> At best we'd've had a civil war.

The best part of that January was that a coup and/or civil war did not happen. The US got on with business. It could have went bad, but it did not do so.

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Re: by Arainach on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:05AM (#36430846)
A coup doesn't have to be successful to be a coup.
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Re: by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:44PM (#36437684)
> The best part ... was that a coup ... did not happen

Strong disagree: a half-assed, incompetently executed, failed bank robbery is still classed as and prosecuted as "bank robbery", there is no separate legal category for "attempted bank robbery".

It's the same with a failed coup. "the coup failed pathetically" is categorically different from "a coup did not happen".

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