An interesting comparison is the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile and the one against Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.
Its a matter of the choice of words and their rhetorical purpose. The liberal press was quick to call the removal of Allende as a coup, much less so the removal of Marcos or Yanukovych. But the differences are mainly about the mechanics of removal, not the fundamentals.
The general circumstances are interestingly parallel. A president that opposes the clear national will on certain important policy questions, or perhaps his perceived failures, and who has alienated democratic state institutions, and has overstepped his authority.
In Chile the military bit the bullet and reluctantly organized a classic coup d’etat. In Ukraine it was much less classic, the military not being involved, but it served the same purpose.
In the Philippines it is the anniversary of yet another such “coup”, I suppose it was the first “color revolution”. It too had a lot of parallels to Ukraine. I participated in that one. There was a classic military coup atte
Its a difficult business dealing with gross failures of governance on the part of elected leaders.
The US has its own issues on this score. It’s probably due a “color revolution” of its own.
I meant to say that in the Philippines there was an actual military coup attempt in 1986, but it failed. The “color revolution” followed immediately after. So one can say that that was a “coup” also, if one is ill disposed to the post-Marcos dispensation.
Thanks for these thoughts. None of these other coups had the US State Dept laid so bare as an actor than the 2014 Ukraine example. I suspect we were involved in these other examples in equivalent degree - I don’t know.
2020 was a color revolution in America.