| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: One Big Ilyushin | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 01/02/24 13:00:00 |
| "Military coups tend to only happen in dictatorships" Off-hand I can think of a number of countries with quasi-democratic governments that were overthrown by military coups - Burma/Myanmar, Pakistan, Nigeria. I recall a Nigerian friend telling me that the military dictators there retire once they have enough money salted away in Swiss banks, hand over to an elected government, and a few years later the next generation of generals fancy getting their snouts in the trough and have another coup. Nevertheless they do seem to have managed a few reasonably clean elections since the last coup, which suggests the country is gaining political maturity. Sadly, the same cannot be said for Putin's Russia. |