The whole damned thing is suspicious - this seemed to fold so quickly. Social media call for people in the streets - unarmed people - causes the military to immediately stand down. Turned it around on a dime. I don’t know, there’s a lot happening we aren’t seeing.
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Gorbachev pulled some kind of simulated coup before the real uprising brought down the Soviet Union. It was some kind of wag the dog thing to consolidate his crumbling power. We’ll see.
Second it.
Do we really know who is responsible for the attempted coup? According to NBC, Edrogan is blaming a radical who’s in exile in Pennsylvania.