Putin's Attempt to Put Down a Coup in Turkey

Coups often fail their first time around. It doesn't mean that they don't succeed later, but in some cases, uh, and the one I'm thinking about right now is Turkey. The attempted coup against Erdogan caused him to be a marginally democratic leader turning him into something of an autocrat. If Putin succeeds in putting down this coup, this armed rebellion, then he will crack down like nobody's business. That's why you saw people who had demonstrated and called this, this special military operation, which was Putin's name for it over a year ago. They were calling it a war. Now the retribution will be even worse.