Yelling "coup" to attack a situation you don't like is far from a new tactic. Classic Russian psyops

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I remember it well in 2014 right here on DU where we had a large contingent of people brainwashed on Russian propaganda claiming that the massive protests and revolution in Ukraine that resulted in Yanukovych leaving the country was nothing more than a secret American sponsored "coup" engineered by President Obama.

It's tried and true.

[Mike 03]

1. Yes, and more recently Erdogan and Maduro used it.

[htuttle]

2. Sheesh, it goes back to being a Soviet ploy

How many party purges did Stalin justify in the name of an attempted coup?

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Conservatives didn't/don't hate communists, they were/are jealous of their totalitarianism..