The US military is currently the most powerful in the world. Is there anything in place, besides soldiers’/CO’s individual allegiances to stop a military coup?
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A coup in the US doesn’t give any legitimate power. Say the take over the white house.. Who cares, they can’t create law, they can’t sign laws, they can’t do anything. The other two branches will just tell them to ‘eff off and congress will just stop paying them.
This is one of the many beauties of the separation of powers.
*(For fear of the downvotes, this is also why the handwringing over what happened on J6 with people going into the Capitol is a little misplaced/over-the-top. Not saying it wasn’t stupid — but it wasn’t any real threat to democracy)*
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