tanks in streets
Armored urban presence
Tanks in streets describes military armored vehicles deployed in civilian areas, typically signaling political crisis, martial law, or authoritarian crackdown.
The image is iconic of coups, revolutions, and government suppression of dissent: We woke up to tanks in the streets.
The phrase evokes both the physical presence of military hardware and the collapse of normal civil order it represents.
- armoredProtected by metal covering
- armored vehiclesPlated military transport machines
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- military coupArmed seizure of government
- state of emergencyOfficially declared public danger
protest · civil unrest · revolution · occupation · martial law · soldiers · uprising · barricades · turrets · convoy · pavement · curfew · resistance · crowd control · live ammunition · invasion · crackdown · rumbling
- coupscoup d'etat, overthrow, coup attempt, soft coup, failed coup
tanks in streetsdog walkers
Those who exercise canines
children playing · open markets · sidewalk cafes · farmers markets · street vendors
tanks in streetsfree elections
Uncoerced public choosing of representatives
free assembly · democratic governance · rule of law · civil liberties · free press
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