realpolitik
n. 實力政策
1. politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations
Europe has become arena of realpolitik, the politics of reality.
歐洲正被權力政治所籠罩, 這是現實的政治.
Both in terms of principle and realpolitik, the Lehman decision was sound.
無論是從原則還是從現實政治考慮,不為雷曼紓困的決定都是正確的.