One may forgive one or two, but well over a dozen coups d’etat is taking the mickey. It emphatically has not instituted a fledgling democracy, which takes a relatively long time to take root without
constant meddling in any event.
Repeated overthrowing of elected governments, however unsavoury, does not create functioning democracies at all. Methinks Johnsen protesteth too much to the contrary.
Look, for example, at the UK. Military meddling created a ruinous civil war that only resulted in a restoration of the status quo. So much for “democratic” quick fixes.
Dr Darke
Bangkok