realpolitik
n. 实力政策
1. politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations
Europe has become arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality.
欧洲正被权力政治所笼罩, 这是现实的政治.
Both in terms of principle and realpolitik, the Lehman decision was sound.
无论是从原则还是从现实政治考虑,不为雷曼纾困的决定都是正确的.