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Capitol Hill: call that a coup?

9 February 2021

6:31 PM

9 February 2021

6:31 PM

To understand how far short the Capitol Hill riot falls of any serious standard for insurrection one only needs to compare it to the Myanmar coup. To stage a coup you need to have the army onside, or at least significant parts of it, and they need to be prepared to act.

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