A group of soldiers on Sunday appeared on Benin’s state television claiming to have removed President Patrice Talon from office and dissolved all state institutions. Talon’s office, meanwhile, said that loyalist forces had managed to get the situation “under control”.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auM
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    2 days ago

    You’ve gotta be pretty confident to get up there and say ‘Mission Over’ when the enemy hasn’t been subdued.

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      I think the play is you announce it, the people celebrate and topple statues of Emperor Palpatine because everyone secretly hates the state like you and then you win without having to bother with all that building up a resistance organization stuff