Biggest argument in favor of compulsory military service I’ve ever seen. The everyday citizen soldiers didn’t give a fuck about the coup, and weren’t willing to risk confrontation with their military trained fellow citizens for a wannabe dictator. It was a beautiful thing.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/citizen-soldier
You don’t need conscripts. This is just, quite literally, one of the foundations of (small r) republican thought.
Worst. Coup d’etat. Ever.
Pedro Castillo was arrested by his own security detail, it’s kinda hard to beat this. Hotdog man didn’t even get within 200km of Moscow. You only get successful coups in Africa these days
Evgeny Prigozhin started his career selling hotdogs, then become a caterer, then became a chef of Putin, then he founded PMC Wagner, tried to do a coup for dumbest reasons imaginable, then got killed by bomb attached to his private jet
you’re on ncd, you should know that
This is like the 2016 Erdogan coup.
I mean, at least that one had some kind of military support and an iota of planning. Seems like Yoon just had a bit of a breakdown, doesn’t seem like people in his own party even knew anything was happening.
South Korea may be a bit more conservative than other western democracies, but the people definitely aren’t afraid to hit the streets and fucking riot if needed. None but a few fucking weirdo new right people really want anything to do with dictatorships anymore.
Idk there was at least some shooting going on. That blacked out attack helo fucked up some loyalist policemen in Ankara.
This was the epitome of “I’m doing just enough to not catch a court martial, but not enough to do anything”
Goddammit, did I sleep through another attempted coup?
When your coup hardly lasts longer than a video about how to coup a country.
