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Budi

(15,325 posts) Sun Sep 20, 2020, 12:27 PM Sep 2020

Choose Democracy. 10 things you need to know to stop a coup.

https://choosedemocracy.us/prepare/#.X2eBeB5Ok0N

SNIP
"Typically power grabs are organized in secret and launched suddenly. Most campaigns that defeat coups do so in days: Soviet Union in 1991 took 3 days, France in 1961 took 4 days, and Bolivians in 1978 took 16 days."