plot to overthrow their government and assassinate their prime minister. as a result of that foiled coup, as the result of the investigation that followed into how that country's democratically elected prime minister almost got himself murdered, we got to know quite a lot about how that plot came together, what montenegro ultimately discovered was it wasn't just a random group of upstarts who one day decide they were going to grab a bunch of guns and take over the montenegroan parliament and kill the miami. what they discovered was this whole coup effort had been backed by russian military intelligence. the coup plotters were allegedly recruited and funded by russian military intelligence by the gru. and russia's apparent goal in supporting that coup was to stop montenegro from deciding to join nato. russia is fixated on nato. they do not want nato any bigger than it is. russia sees nato as its main