[dash2]

There's room for some nuance here. A bunch of fairly confused people with fairly confused goals, and no clear plan to achieve them, wouldn't normally count as a coup. There may have been actors who had more of a plan. It's not a 0-1 binary thing.

[sh1989]

They were quite literally seconds away from something incredibly more serious happening.

Just because they botched the implementation doesn't lessen the intent.