Wonder if CNN etal will be promoting this statement of concern by the 'highly principled' military caste concerned for the direction of their constitutional state? Whither, indeed?
nytimes.com/2020/12/27/wor…
nytimes.com/2020/12/27/wor…
Nation-States often make settlements within themselves to get ahead - sometimes you want a "culture of forgetting". In Spain's case, there was a general agreement to put the Civil War & after behind it. The Spanish military was a genuinely national institution so it esp did this
In NATO HQ/exercises in the 1970s, it was not uncommon to have visiting older Spanish staff officers (Spain was not a member) wearing German decorations (that Germans could not wear) the Spanish oficers had won as youth fighting in the Blue Division against the Soviets.
There was (and is) nothing wrong with Spain that would not have been solved by the promised Carlist restoration - it offered traditional Spain its rights as well as a degree of autonomy to the outliers & the urban weird, albeit the Catalans would have to be watched ... Tragic end
As for good coups.... the Spanish Communists looted Madrid’s synagogues....General Franco's Catholic and Moorish army helped reopen the Madrid synagogues & restore crucial local Jewish communities (who in Morrocco helped finance Franco's airlift). What is Spanish for Whither? 
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