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The more arguably realist justifications, such as the rationale that a prolonged conflict in Ukraine weakens the Russian military, sounded too cynical to make for good politics—especially regarding a potential nuclear conflict.
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Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.
—Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
The Scot is a hard-nosed realist first, and a closet romantic second.
—Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.
—Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
The Scot is a hard-nosed realist first, and a closet romantic second.
—Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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