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Imo, small nation has bigger chance to adopt republican democracy well. Even small nations, there are many failed cases when the small one has too much diversity.Yes lot of this would need face to face talk I'm afraid, coz I would need to build up my case and analysis using archive material (I have collected) with proper context.
China is a different country on this matter altogether as we have discussed before. But for average country I believe overall republican democracy if implemented well is the best shot otherwise its too much coin flipping.
The problem of republican democracy is not republic, it's democracy I think. In theory, almost every nation can call themselves republic as long as it's not Monarchy, or Theocracy. Nowadays, media is everywhere, so almost every democracy transformed to liberal democracy to some extent. The more power you give to mass, the more they want.
Imo, you can't have liberty and democracy in the same time. You can have illiberal democracy(partial democracy), or you can have liberty without democracy.
When we talked about Democracy here, we are talking Western Democracy. and Western Democracy is the tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses). How can you have liberty when you have to obey majority opinion? Impossible.
Liberty is free man, free of mind, free of choice and responsible for his own choice.
The tyranny of the majority means you are not free man at all, and your choice doesn't matter much, the mass matters.
The contradiction of nowadays Democracy Political System is overwhelming democracy. It's uncontrollable.
Western Democracy either ends with Strong Man rule, we have seen many, e.g. Erdogan, Modi, Putin, Viktor Orbán, Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte, Prayut Chan-o-cha.
Or Western Democracy ends with chaos, we have seen more, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Libya, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Span, even US.
Or Both Strong Man rule and chaos, Thailand, Turkey, Philippine, Venezuela, Bolivia, even US.
China is democracy, you can laugh as hard you can. But it depends on what standard and value you respect. Democracy by mass vote is the worst and low level of democracy. Real democracy is the government policy making involves the people, every single project and law making process take care their people's interest and allow professionals and mass to participate.
US mass can have vote, but their law making are hugely influenced by rich and big cop. That's why US is not democracy, it's Plutocracy or Kleptocracy, or even dictatorship. Do US majority mass want wars oversees? No. But Pentagon keep doing it regardless.