UN doesn't trust America - will send in people to monitor the elections

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We're going to have people from nations who don't have elections to be making sure our elections work correctly. Right...

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We're going to have people from nations who don't have elections to be making sure our elections work correctly. Right...

All of those nations hold elections except Belarus, and all except the last 3 are liberal democracies.

I'm well aware of that. There's just a particular irony of going to the polls monitored by the Belarusians. Maybe they won't be allowed back into Belarus, since they know of elections now.

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Considering that the US was the first of the modern day republics

And you're basing that assumption on... what, exactly ?

I trust you haven't, by any chance, heard about the Dutch united provinces ?

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Considering that the US was the first of the modern day republics

And you're basing that assumption on... what, exactly ?

I trust you haven't, by any chance, heard about the Dutch united provinces ?

If you wanna play this game :
But I think the point was in "modern", as in, you know, post Middle Age in its date of establishment.

Even if you're only considering Republics that survive today, there's Switzerland, as well as the Commonwealth of England.

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The Dutch and English today are both constitutional monarchies, not republics. Iceland wasn't declared an independent republic until 1944.

So, yes, the US remains the oldest existing republic.

The Swiss Confederation is an independent federal republic...