realpolitik

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Juvenile power fantasies are now meeting realpolitik and power.

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“India is in many ways the epitome of the ‘realpolitik state’ in today’s world, meaning it has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

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In an email, Norman Ornstein, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a prominent pro-democracy voice, offered a dose of realpolitik.

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It's partly the sort of realpolitik of the chalk network that I live on, which is just this spectacularly rare ecosystem.

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But the realpolitik is that by definition, marginalized groups are not the majority.

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