Explain what you think this quote means: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried"

I would decipher it as saying that while it is a " terrible " government, and it has flaws, out of all the others that have been tried, it is the best. So it's the best of the worst.

world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

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