At least in the US, I can't see any sort of coup actually succeeding. After all, with hundreds of years of democratic tradition and plenty of training not to kill civilians, I can't see the military firing at US citizens beyond just a few bad apples. Even in Syria, Yemen, and Libya, army units have defected to avoid shooting their own citizens. And the US trained Egyptian and Tunisian militaries refused to even stop the overthrow of their government.
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