Riot collusion - why, how?

Amazing video

Following are some synonyms of "coup". 

overthrow takeover ousting  deposition regime change

None of those words used individually, with the possible exception of overthrown, come close to describing the totality of what the word "coup" is intended to relate. The word has no antonym that would ever be seen in isolation as coup's opposite. 

There is one defensive strategy that would have worked, I believe, in this particular case where a particular piece of real estate was the target. All the cops could have pulled back to within the building early on. Loud speakers would then announce that anyone caught beyond the outdoor barricades when reinforcements arrived would be held in violation of the law and would be prosecuted to its full extent. Then they would announce that anyone attempting to come within twenty feet of the building without authorization would be shot. Maybe instead say actual attempt to enter the building in any way. They could start with birdshot or rubber bullets and escalate from there if necessary. I doubt there were Kamikazes in that crowd ready to commit suicide for their cause.  That plan would not solve any of the problems that led to the event, it might well escalate tensions as much as what did happened will among the crazies, but I believe the Capital building would not have been breached and probably nobody would have died. Get ready for more social upheaval, guerilla tactics by the crazies, and more police state reaction. 

The terminology wars, continued 

H.A. Hellyer, a Cambridge University fellow, is a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He tweets at @hahellyer.

I have lived through and experienced two successful coups in my lifetime, and observed others from afar. On a purely technical level, what was attempted in Washington on Wednesday was an attempted coup — there’s really no point in debating that point.  

It may not have been a successful coup, but its failure wasn’t inevitable. As legal scholar David Green noted, an essential constitutional step in a peaceful transfer of power was disrupted. Had that step — the certification of the electoral college votes — been left unfulfilled, Biden’s inauguration on January 20 would have been uncertain. Let us keep in mind, there were not a few Republican politicians who continued to question the legitimacy of the electoral process on Wednesday. 

Moreover, the disruption was deliberately incited by the president, who has taken every opportunity to sow doubt about the integrity of the process in order to remain in power. The forces of populist nationalist authoritarianism butted up against constitutionalism — and as Green wrote, it was not inevitable that constitutionalism would win

Of course, we should be precise with our language, so as not to dilute the meaning of words like “coup,” or “fascism.” But raise the bar too high and it becomes impossible to meet. When we fail to call events or figures out for what they actually are, we invite them into the mainstream.  

This is what happened with America’s far right over the past four years. It has become normalized to the point where the storming of the Capitol by an extremist mob was supported by 45 percent of Republican voters. This too is America. 

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-capitol-donald-trump-riot-call-it-what-it-is-an-attempted-coup/

Presidential historian, Michael Beschloss

“This is a coup d’état attempted by the president of the United States,” said Michael Beschloss, the normally sober presidential historian, invoking a term Americans have associated with distant, unstable lands. Another historian, Jeffrey Engel from Southern Methodist University, pronounced the mob and the president who incited them as “batshit crazy”.

https://www.ft.com/content/5c471c49-de90-4f5f-9c91-19be0daa491c

Video embedded below from WaPo Jan. 28 Was the Capitol riot a coup attempt?

Did the attack that followed President Donald Trump’s speech on Jan. 6 amount to an attempted coup, or is it more properly classified as an insurrection? And why does that matter?

looking like a real genuine textbook COUP D'ETAT may be happening in Myamar right now:

Myanmar army detains country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, president and other high-profile political leaders amid coup fears, according to multiple reports

The Southeast Asian country's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in an early morning raid on Monday along with Myanmar's President Win Myint and other senior ruling party figures, according to Reuters, Channel News Asia and the BBC. Late last week several diplomatic missions in Myanmar issued a statement warning against a military coup as tension flared between the civilian government and the country's powerful military following the general election in November. The new parliament in Myanmar was due to meet on Monday for the first time since Suu Kyi's landslide win in the election.