Is it like a specific approach to doing politics, and how is it supposed to contrast with other aspects of politics?
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Realpolitik is away of dealing with politics that places ideology second to practicality.
For example: Cardinal Richelieu, a historical leader of France, made deals and slipped money to protestants in the 1600s to counter the spanish and the HRE
Cardinal Richelieu was, as you might guess from the name, catholic, and in his day allying with protestants was *not fucking bonita* but it was the right move and led the French into political dominence that they rode most of.the way to the French revolution
It is related but not the same as machiavellianism. Sometimes the most correct course of action for your nation’s interest is to be the bad guy or to be friends with the bad guy
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