The word “democracy” has become the fig leaf for “cicero pro domo sua“ analysts {that look at things in a way that will benefit themselves}. They use the word, a bit like cooks use parsley: a bit here and a bit there, no harm done. The coup d‘état depends on certain ingredients. First: there has to be a State with a legitimate government elected in regular elections. In Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych was elected with the 51% of the votes in 2010. Second: the country has to be the object of international appetites interested in geopolitics and raw materials. Third: somewhere there has to be a square that’s massive and pretty famous like Maidan in Kiev, for a rivolt that gets rid of the tyrant. A sprinkling of deaths on both sides, international indignation that’s covered by the main networks, and extensive use of social media and the revolution is served up. Elections are no longer needed. The fact that it’s not possible to find out who really was in the square, whether there were “agents provocateurs” present and who actually fired shots, is well known, but nobody is interested. For the general public, the division between good people and bad people is definitive and this is what counts. In Egypt, President Morsi, another one elected in regular elections, was deposed by demonstrations in the streets and is now on trial, in a soundproof cage in the courtroom. The military have taken his place. There’s been no hint of indignation from either Europe or Washington and not even a Tomahawk missile like dictator Gaddafi got.