[wardaddy]

France has a possibility of a coup at some point akin to the upheaval during the shedding of the department of Algeria

I would think

French military is fairly robust in contrast to freeper ribbing

[Wallace T.]

The Left learned a lesson from the successful overthrows of leftist governments in Spain and Chile. In this country, the Left was alarmed by right wing generals like MacArthur, Patton, LeMay, and Edwin Walker in the postwar period. I am not familiar with the French military but if it is like ours the top ranks are Establishment yes-men.