Basically title, because I saw an article from BBC that a few people tried to seize power in Germany. Do they get the power just by occupying the building? Do other states recognise this? What happens to the constitution and the law? Is is a lawless state while they create a new constitution?
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Coups work through sheer violence. That’s it. If everyone is afraid that you will shoot them in the face, and you actually have the power to do that, then they will comply with your demands.
If you *can’t* kill them for not following you, then you have a problem.
Other states recognize coups, again, through sheer violence. If the coups have a sufficiently powerful military that say, a war or police action wouldn’t work against them, then other states really have no choice.
For a perfect example, see the Chinese Civil war and how the CCP overthrew the KMT. The CCP coerced the world into recognizing it through sheer violence- even the US was unwilling to wage a war to return the Taiwan government to ‘rightful’ power, leading the rest of the world to having to acknowledge the CCP as the true government of China.
There’s no secret to a coup. It’s purely the stuff you see on Game of Thrones. Kill everyone that opposes you, in the most efficient manner possible. That’s it. It usually starts a civil war.
Take any intro to political science course and you learn a fundamental rule that most people fail to grasp. Violence solves everything, it is the ultimate power. The very foundations of government and law and civilization exist on the foundation of controlled violence.
We tell children that ‘violence doesn’t solve anything’ because they’re incapable of understanding that a system of laws, courts and government officials that enforce their will through armed police and soldiers is what enables them to live in a society where they aren’t immediately killed at the whim of larger, meaner children. That the decisions to inflict violence should only be wielded by the highly educated or highly regarded.
Without state control of violence, there is no law, peace or stability. Just anarchy in the mad max style. In order for humans to live in peace there must be *someone* deciding who lives and who dies and why, and those people need to be the strongest and most capable of killing those that defy the system.
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