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Part Two: The Dumbest Coup In World History

Behind the Bastards

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Equatorial Genny's Sovereignty in South Africa

The spanish government hoped a successful coup would allow them to profit from equatorial genny's oil south africa felt that stopping the coup would help them profit off equatorial g Jenny's oil so in addition to warning obiang south africa put in a call to robert mugabe the dictator of zimbob way now and they were like hey the a bunch of mercenaries led by a british guy are going to be picking up legal arms at your airport maybe do something about it. Mugabe was above all else terrified of britain which is the most reasonable thing about robert mugabe but he didn't want his old colonial oppressor plotting a coup against him.

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