A bunch of raving cow men who all went home when it got dark is hardly the army you need for a coup imo. Never mind coup, I wouldn't even call it a riot, more a really severe case of civil disobedience. That does not make it an attempted coup, you need the army on board to be pulling that stunt and even then, unless you have most of them it will still fail. See Turkey and Erdogan for a good recent example of that.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, has already said the military do not get themselves involved in US domestic politics. I can't remember what nonsense Trump was spouting at the time but this speech was seen in some quarters as a response to him and it concerns just who it is that the us army makes an oath to, and it's not an individual, it's to the constitution. He pretty much hammers that point home.
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