statecraft

Don’t misunderstand my tone as laudatory: In 17-plus years as prime minister across four decades, Netanyahu has continually outdone himself in viciousness, criminal depravity and shamelessly immoral or amoral statecraft.

It was stagecraft and statecraft combined in a single moment, neatly pitched for the scenario the prime minister found himself in.

A quintessential act of foreign policy realism statecraft, the accords brought together Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan in a strategic Iran-containment alliance.

The proposed deal has also attracted criticism in the UK, with the opposition Conservative party calling it a "monumental failure of statecraft".

But Aemond is more experienced in statecraft and, importantly, consistent in his hatred for the comatose king.