Goddammit, did I sleep through another attempted coup?
They should really respect European time zones! Most of the time I only see the first half, even if I stay up late.
Biggest argument in favor of compulsory military service I've ever seen. The everyday citizen soldiers didn't give a fuck about the coup, and weren't willing to risk confrontation with their military trained fellow citizens for a wannabe dictator. It was a beautiful thing.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/citizen-soldier
You don't need conscripts. This is just, quite literally, one of the foundations of (small r) republican thought.
They sent tier 1 SOF and MP, but yeah even they didn't want to be involved
When your coup hardly lasts longer than a video about how to coup a country.
This is like the 2016 Erdogan coup.
I mean, at least that one had some kind of military support and an iota of planning. Seems like Yoon just had a bit of a breakdown, doesn't seem like people in his own party even knew anything was happening.
South Korea may be a bit more conservative than other western democracies, but the people definitely aren't afraid to hit the streets and fucking riot if needed. None but a few fucking weirdo new right people really want anything to do with dictatorships anymore.
Honestly people hitting the streets and the almost universal backlash against it in S Korean society was really encouraging to see. There clearly seems to be consensus that these kinds of tactics don't belong in the modern day for them.
Yoon had military backing, it just turns out that those officers were clowns.
Idk there was at least some shooting going on. That blacked out attack helo fucked up some loyalist policemen in Ankara.
This was the epitome of “I’m doing just enough to not catch a court martial, but not enough to do anything”
