Napoleon succeeded in the 1799 coup because republican generals refused while he wanted to become the Caesar who ends the republic.
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"...he does take a third term, essentially when he launches a coup d 'etat against the Constitution, he will have the muscle in order..."
"...possibility of a revolution in Ukraine. There's a high possibility of coup d 'etat in in in Ukraine because the military feels betrayed by..."
"...will decide with them, they will have no issues with their coup d 'etat. But Moreau, he's a staunch Republican. He refuses. He's like,..."
"...Roman Republic, okay? And so what happens is Napoleon launches a coup d 'etat in Paris. And at this point, the great fear is..."
"So, no one cares who's president anymore. And that's going to help Trump in November. Okay? Any more questions before I move on? Okay...."
"...don't know, New York or Virginia. Okay? Right? Then you have coup d 'etats, where basically an arm of the military, maybe special forces,..."
"...rome on a fake diplomatic mission while secretly launching a military coup that tore down dante's home seized all his assets and locked his..."
"...Kremlin. But it also involved the 1917 color revolution, the Bolshevik coup. It also involved a sort of a color revolution in 1991. You..."
"It could be a coup d 'etat as well. So basically, from a Trump perspective, the more chaos, the better, because it allows him..."
"...regime will collapse any day now the military will launch a coup d 'etat against iran any day now the these Iranian people will..."
"...because what science does is it's one of its, like, biggest coups was that it wiped away previous history and put on top of..."
"Yeah. No, I think, yeah, no, the coup attempt in 2016, I think this was very clear. Well, it's not the first time they..."
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