As an outsider it seems to me like a choice^ between military backed Nationalism and Theocracy. If one side uses god as their method of maintaining power and t

As an outsider it seems to me like a choice^ between military backed Nationalism and Theocracy. If one side uses god as their method of maintaining power and the other uses the army then neither can claim to be representing democracy, at least as a method of acquiring and maintaining political power. Outside of a basic democratic paradigm, I'm not sure what choice really means. But, even inside modern democracies the concept slightly theoretical.