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twixfel · 2023-07-21 03:58:42

Truly stable countries don’t have attempted coups at all, then, if you really insist on being pedantic.

twixfel | karma | avg karma · | 2023-07-20 03:54:14

Truly stable countries don't have coups at all. A coup of any kind is a sign of instability.

dragonwriter | karma 118260 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2023-07-20 10:55:00

> Truly stable countries don’t have coups at all.

A failed coup attempt is not a coup.

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cyanydeez | karma 1718 | avg karma 0.75 · | 2023-08-30 09:25:02

They have a suspicious lack of coup attempts in the last decade.

NicoJuicy | karma 10294 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2019-12-18 15:47:00

A coup doesn't happen with democracies/countries, it's dictatorships that "survive" coups.

verve_rat | karma 1465 | avg karma 2.61 · | 2022-03-29 16:19:49

Just because it wasn't a very good or well organised coup attempt doesn't mean it wasn't a coup attempt.

Arainach | karma 6146 | avg karma 5.16 · | 2023-06-22 07:05:06

A coup doesn't have to be successful to be a coup.

sdm | karma 412 | avg karma 2.15 · | 2016-07-16 15:20:32+00:00

I'm confused by your comment. Plenty of western countries have coups; look at South America for example.

namarie | karma 202 | avg karma 1.53 · | 2017-04-16 22:47:29

If that were true no coup d'état would ever happen in any democratic country.

jonknee | karma 33361 | avg karma 4.51 · | 2012-08-21 14:25:43+00:00

They have had a military coup within the last decade, not exactly a bastion of stability.

NicoJuicy | karma 10294 | avg karma 1.47 · | 2024-06-12 23:50:16

That already encountered a coup? That barely happens in a democracy.

anticensor | karma 1400 | avg karma 0.58 · | 2024-04-04 19:02:07

Why are there no coups d'etat then?

derefr | karma 53572 | avg karma 3.59 · | 2023-07-15 14:09:02

I get the sense that you just aren't familiar with any nations that actually have coups. Here, a list — it's very, very long, and most entries are from the last 50 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempt...

spoils19 | karma 170 | avg karma 0.44 · | 2022-11-23 20:37:04

Do coups not exist?

gjs278 | karma 45 | avg karma 0.05 · | 2021-10-28 23:23:16

lol there was no attempted overthrow. go back to /r/politics

bigbubba | karma 2486 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2020-12-11 20:57:10+00:00

If that's a coup, then obviously not all coups are worth worrying about. They really are not going to do shit.

nabla9 | karma 38285 | avg karma 4.67 · | 2021-01-25 21:57:38+00:00

Unsuccessful or incompetent coup attempt is still a coup.

rat87 | karma 864 | avg karma 1.08 · | 2021-02-15 07:00:48+00:00

How was it not an attempted coup? Not a smart coup, or one likely to be successful but a coup nonetheless.

dragonwriter | karma 118260 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2023-07-19 04:14:47

Failed coup attempts are signs that someone wants the government to be unstable, but less so that it actually is.

Russia’s government has been very stable for the last couple decades, with little change in substantive authority even in the inter-Putin period when Medvedev was nominally President; certainly much less substantive change than in the UK.

(One might reasonably suspect its the kind of stability produced by a brittle regime that does not bend and is thus more likely to catastrophically break, though.)

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Acrobatic_Road | karma 2197 | avg karma 4.78 · | 2021-01-09 03:55:45+00:00

It's not a failed coup. It's just not a coup at all.