realpolitik

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He’s living up to a realpolitik maxim attributed to various Latin American caudillos: For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Yesterday’s north star of global financial harmony has yielded to today’s realpolitik.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

Legitimate arguments could be made for rebooting U.S.–Saudi relations, on various realpolitik grounds.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025

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

From Salon • May 28, 2025

On the eve of the war, at the inauguration of Turgot's Monument, we set forth his ideas of liberty and humanity in opposition to the German realpolitik.

From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various