Trump’s Saudi Arabia statement: Realpolitik for kindergarteners
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Trump’s Saudi Arabia statement: Realpolitik for kindergarteners

Saudis murdered the Washington Post columnist Jamal Kashoggi in their Turkish embassy. Now President Trump is making the case that we must stand by Saudi Arabia. The term for this sort of strategy is “realpolitik” — but the level of such arguments is typically intellectual, not playground taunts. What is realpolitik? It is international relations…