I think you are confusing ‘republic’ and ‘democracy’. Anyway, the head of government in the UK is the prime minister, so the UK doesn’t appear to be disqualified by your criteria.
Emphasis added. NO other nation extended diplomatic recognition to the CSA, as I recall (despite its ardent courting of the UK and France, especially).
If you properly support this argument and bring it up only among close friends who already agree, it still falls completely flat. If you ran it down an ice-covered hill onto a flat pane covered with cooking oil, it wouldn’t slide.
Neither Hitler himself nor his fans nor Eva Braun ever seriously considered Nazi Germany a democracy – Hitler explicitly argued that democracies were weak and that he offered a better way.
This is a strange sort of argument you hear only in two places – internet message boards and first-year college dorms.
You’re right. I had thought some dinky Euro principality had recognized the CSA, but it turns out that was likely just one dude more or less doing stuff without authority.
"No country appointed any diplomat officially to the Confederacy, but several *maintained their consuls in the South whom they had appointed before the outbreak of war. In 1861, Ernst Raven applied for approval as the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha consul, but he held citizenship of Texas and no evidence exists that officials in Saxe-Coburg and Gotha knew of his actions. In 1863, the Confederacy expelled all foreign consuls (all of them British or French diplomats) for advising their subjects to refuse to serve in combat against the U.S.
Throughout the war, most European powers adopted a policy of neutrality, meeting informally with Confederate diplomats but withholding diplomatic recognition. None ever sent an ambassador or an official delegation to Richmond. *"