Subject: Re: Sweden
re·pub·lic

a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. - OXFORD

Republics are representative democracies Dope. Basic.

So what you are saying is that we are a Constitutional 'Representative Democracy', not a Democracy. But y'all have trouble with thinking you're a democracy if it gets in the way.

There is no basic requirement that NATO members meet the perceived requirements of MAGA folk in the northwest or anywhere else in the USA.