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Friendly advice from the New York Times: How to carry out a coup nytimes.com/2019/05/02/wor…
This article is pure gold propaganda. "We tend to think of coups as driven by angry protesters or rogue officers. But, in practice, they are almost always brought about by the country’s dominant political, military and business elite."
"Those power brokers, after all, have the final say over whether a leader stays or goes. But they can only remove a leader if they act together—making any coup what Singh, a leader scholar of coups, called a 'coordination game.'" I wonder how one becomes a scholar of coups?
"Some of Mr. Guaidó’s failures have been tactical, such as issuing his call to action on Twitter, Mr. Singh said. Coup leaders traditionally favor national TV and radio stations because seizing them is a way to convince the country that they have already taken control."
“You don’t say ‘We can win if only we have your support.’ What you say is ‘We’ve already won,’” Mr. Singh said. “By making it seem like you’ve already succeeded, you get the support necessary to succeed.” Good to know! Thanks New York Times!
This just keeps getting better and better. "Manufacturing Popular Consensus--Mr. Guaidó’s challenge may be that he is trying to solve two problems at once. He is trying to use hints of elite defection from Mr. Maduro’s government to spur a wider popular uprising....
... And he is trying to use protests to encourage more elite defections. Those two audiences, in any movement to unseat a government, tend to want mutually exclusive outcomes." Turns out, the elites and the population want different things! Better to just focus on one!
To top it all off, the print version of this article is next to a full-page ad on #WorldPressFreedomDay, which the NYT interprets as freedom to propagate lies and warmongering, while supporting the persecution of real journalists like #Assange.
