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To: RoosterRedux

Is it properly called a “coup” when it’s being executed by the monarch?


4 posted on 11/06/2017 7:24:40 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: rightwingcrazy; Georgia Girl 2
The coup was when Mohammed bin Salman replaced Saud bin Nayef Al Saud as Crown Prince.

Now comes the purge of all opposing forces.

6 posted on 11/06/2017 7:35:54 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: rightwingcrazy

Article title sucks. How can it be a coup when it is the Monarch conduction it?


15 posted on 11/06/2017 8:10:34 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: rightwingcrazy
It's what Napoleon III did. He was elected president of the French republic, but executed a coup 3 years later to seize power and was appointed emperor.

The appropriate term is self-coup. It has happened many times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

23 posted on 11/06/2017 8:45:58 AM PST by semantic
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