Comment by semiquaver
2 months ago
What legitimate domestic process are you envisioning? He lost an election and stayed in power anyway. Any domestic process to remove him would look like a coup.
2 months ago
What legitimate domestic process are you envisioning? He lost an election and stayed in power anyway. Any domestic process to remove him would look like a coup.
> He lost an election and stayed in power anyway
Hey, we had a guy who tried to do that too! Thank goodness it didn't work out.
Not everything is about your country
No, but the referenced individual is responsible for this geopolitical mess we're discussing, so it's certainly relevant.
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We did. And if he was successful, and then started threatening Canada, I think I'd be totally fine with Canada performing a special operation and taking him to stand trial.
There have been uprisings that weren't coups in many countries in the world.
And if that doesn't work? You could, for example, envision a situation where 10% of the people are well treated and armed by the government. It'd be very hard for an unarmed ill-treated 90% to conduct any kind of uprising if the government was sufficiently well organized and brutal.