The joke is obviously on the author. Nobody in so called far-flung lands would have confused the January 6 riots for an attempted coup. And the US press would n

The joke is obviously on the author. Nobody in so called far-flung lands would have confused the January 6 riots for an attempted coup. And the US press would never have used language like that for such a riot, which featured so little weaponry and organization (up against the global military superpower). Putin has been protested against many times, the US press doesn't call the protests attempted coup attempts. People in far-flung nations can tell the difference between a riot - where, for example, the rioters were recorded on video being intentionally let into the government building in question - and an actual coup attempt. It's only domestically where a small group of politically motivated people are so wildly irrational or ignorant that they don't know the difference.