Websters, Coup d’Etat: “A sudden, decisive action in politics effecting a change of government illegally or by force”.
The precise definition, likely unfamiliar to most Americans, is not a subject of confusion to our government. Coups, it can be said, are us. Our government runs them all the time. They are, with unilateral and undeclared war, its favorite ‘diplomatic’ endeavor. It was late to adopt the tactic but strove to perfect subversion and destruction of regimes beyond what was thought possible.
-- Paul Edwards
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