realpolitik: n. (re·al·po·li·tik) (sometimes cap.) politics or national policy governed by principles of power, expansion, and expediency rather than by ideals or ethics.
- Central Asia: U.S. Military Buildup Shifts Spheres Of Influence
- America quietly changes war aim
- Dismay With Saudi Arabia Fuels Pullout Talk The US won’t pullout unless the Saudis make them. We’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars building bases there.
- US defends their skirting of the Geneva Convention
- Spraying Poisonous Herbicides on Colombians: Your tax dollars at work. The US will be increasing assistance to the Colombian government against the FARC in the name of the ‘War on Drugs’. Sounds almost as funny as the ‘War Against Terrorism’.
- New Criticism Signals Tension Between U.S. and Russia
- Russia: No Need for Post-War U.S. Forces in C. Asia