It could be argued that another country has already staged a coup, russia was pretty successful in its endeavour to install trump.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
61 points (87.7% liked)
No Stupid Questions
37005 readers
843 users here now
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
At this point I feel this is a self-coup, happening in America.
Every one important nodding along with presidential powers over consititution, and election results, is not a coup. Fixing it would be a coup.
~~What if~~ another country staged a coup in the US and ~~deposed~~ keeps trump because he is a useful idiot.
Russia, mostly.
Considering how powerful the US has in terms of geographical advantage and military prowess, I'd be horrified if any entity is capable of staging a coup in the US... Maaaybe if a few countries somehow convince Canada/Mexico to all work together. But all-things considered it certainly seems like a self-coup is much more likely for the US
a self-coup is much more likely for the US
Of course. You're seeing it now.
The only countries capable of doing that are already getting exactly what they want
They already staged a coup to install him.
"coup"?
They fucking brainwashed 70 million+ people to actually vote for it. 😭
This is hardly a "coup", this is just peak human stupidity.
“coup”?
They fucking brainwashed 70 million+ people to actually vote for it
Best bloodless coup ever.
There were thousands of Xitter accounts echoing and amplifying Trump that were deleted immediately after the election. The propaganda machine is on automatic now.
Same thing happened on a smaller scale with my local conservative school board members boosting themselves with fake Facebook accounts, then deleting them after they were busted. They claimed "we have nothing to hide" and "this is an assault on our free speech rights." I'm stoking the flames by sending a letter to the local newspaper editor saying that if fake personas have free speech rights, they should also have the right to vote.
This has likely been brewing since cold war. Didnt some soviet leader basically gloat how they will destroy usa from within? soviet union has basically won the cold war now, even worse than if they had conquered usa with military.
Something like this also cant be managed just from outside. Ones in power now are traitors.
That ain't happening. If one were to occur here, a coup would be a popular movement or a military one.
Ownership should revert to the UK. The founders experiment failed, so just re-establish the previous situation.
Well, I think we'd have to give some of the Eastern seaboard to the UK. But some goes to France, some to Spain. And tbh a lot could be reallocated back to American Indian groups and councils. Oh, and a bunch would go back to Mexico, too.
a lot could be reallocated back to American Indian groups and councils
Don't stop there. Where my Clovis people at?
Only way that would happen is if the military lets it.
Is there any country the military trusts more than the current president?
Hmmmm… Canada would be my closest guess.
I for one welcome our Canadian overlords.
Yea Canada would be the only one to even remotely manage that, and that's taking the gamble that the US doesn't launch a nuke before it finishes.
Being said it would need to be the military, I don't think the average citizen would stop something like that. Especially if the invaders were another democratic leaning country. The only way I think you get civilians to fight is if it ends up being a communist country that tries to invade. The relational ties with Canada are pretty strong, many people have friends who are Canadian, and it's so unlike Canada that I don't think many would believe it was actually them if it was done.
Hell we're talking a country that basically shrugged and said "oh well they deserved it" when someone shot a healthcare CEO, I can't see anyone batting much of an eye if someone deposed the sitting officials, especially the head of the country, at least in it's current state.
Being said though.... if something like that did happen, I don't think it will be from a foreign government, I think it would be domestic. Not that it makes it any better.
No sorry I think you're mistaken. Canada is a national security threat
If our barely-more-democratic government and consolidated healthcare is a national security threat, then let me just say this, as a Canadian.
Sorry.
DOGE cutting CIA funding or something? Gotta open source the intel apparatus now?
With all their experience, the CIA should brew one up right now, the country could use it. Just for one in your life, though, try not to install another dictator, install an actual democratic government, as this country really never has had one
The "good ones" got shoved out the office already (probably out the windows next)
Based on recent events, I'd say South Africa. Because the afrikaners are still bitter about our role in ending their apartheid state, and a significant portion of the United States is racist enough to encourage it to happen.
The problem is that I don't think any of the countries with the economic means to support a coup have any interest in doing so, and the small list of countries that would support another U.S. coup do not have the economic means to do so.
Putin is currently staging a coup, and it's on the United States' dime. If all of this is somehow actually the machinations of Putin, you can't help but be impressed with it.
A foreign country can't stage a coup, only foment one. If your looking for expertise, there are a bunch of CIA guys about to be unemployed.
'This isn't a coup, it's our own government.'
'It can't be a coup if it's a foreign government!'
People, shut up. Any time a democracy is overthrown for autocracy - that is a coup d'etat.
if someone would do it:
Cuba. Or Iran. Or a Palestinian faction.
Why:
-
Trump's government openly hates Cuba and has reversed Obama/Biden-era openness to Cuba.
-
Trump had Iran's most important foreign military leader assassinated, he is close with Iran's regional rivals and supports Iran's biggest enemy Israel.
-
Why a palestinian faction would try to do is doesn't need to be explained, I guess.
None of those have funds for it without backing from a very wealthy state.
Por que no los tres?
Yeah, I think it would be the Cubans and Russians at the same time. And they'd get pretty far except for some meddling teens.
Later, North Korea would reboot the effort.
Never mind another country. No country's constitution is immune to the military taking over. Israel first, oligarchy 2nd, is a good case for military intervention that couldn't do any worse. Military rule doesn't mean aggressiveness towards other nations.
Trump is a symptom of a corrupt system. Removing him is like treating cancer with a bandaid. The entire system must be challenged and overthrown, which includes Democrats and Republicans alike.
Everyone in the comments mentioning Russia as if Israel isn't the largest threat to us.
LOL
Ain't happening.
conservative 2nd amendment gun nuts will storm the capital and restore trump (or if he's dead, another Magat), most of the military voted trump, dude has full support. There ain't no "coup", you are describing an invasion/rebellion.
Trump's children do it, because it is all just so shameful.