Your position is very tenuous, based on a reasonable reading of the definitions of "coup" and "attempt"; but even if GP changed their wording to suit you (e.g.

Your position is very tenuous, based on a reasonable reading of the definitions of "coup" and "attempt"; but even if GP changed their wording to suit you (e.g. "We just easily stopped a political riot") it seems to me that their point (that the powerful people who planned it escaped punishment in that case, and therefore will in this case) would stand unaltered. Also, when introducing a hot-button political topic (especially in a thread about a different hot-button political topic), it would be nice to do it in a friendly way, i.e. without orating upon the sheer quantity of ignorance it takes to disagree with you.