realpolitik
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
realpolitik /reɪˈɑːlpɒlɪˌtiːk/
▶noun politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
– origin early 20th cent.: from Ger. Realpolitik ‘practical politics’.
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