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Though they largely put down the putsch, many then turned their wrath on Alawites, a largely impoverished minority that constitutes some 10% of the country’s population and which dominated Assad-era security services and state bureaucracy.

The Pizzagate-pushing host said the Trump administration would have total power to run such a putsch against the opposition.

From Salon

However, the venerable flag has been co-opted by Christians who think Trump deserved a putsch because the courts refused to take his frivolous election fraud lawsuits seriously.

From Salon

Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, initially offered little detail about the purported putsch in the capital, Kinshasa, other than to say that the plotters and their leader had been “put out of action.”

Not for those who suffered in the “dirty war” under the junta, but for those victims of leftist guerrillas before the putsch.

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