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If the current helplessness and cluelessness of the West shows one thing, then it is that the West has lost its ability to think in terms of "Realpolitik". Dealing with states and anticipating their actions on the basis of their real interests, their real spheres of influence, their real vital and non-negotiable red lines. The term "Realpolitik" has become a foul word, it is used in talkshows to defame unwanted opinions and reminders of critics about unwelcomed facts and realities, instead one wallows in sentimental sweet-talking about how nice it is to reasonably talk as if no collision of interest were there and all states were just one happy family with same interests. All conflicts and all dissenting views that violate the collectively demanded "majority consensus" get ignored and either defined as being symptoms of mental illness or social irresponsibility, or as simply being non-existent. Over the years, also in this forum, when I mentioned the need for more Realpolitik, the term was returned sometimes as an offence, a derogatory defamation, a way of ridiculing an opinion or assessment the other happened to disagree with. And this happens all the time in the media as well, especially when calling back to mind some facts that question the canon of ordered views and opinions as demanded by the EU, or when questioning the socialist dogma and calculating that economically it cannot be maintained much longer. Realpolitik, we hear, is a term that guys like Bismarck Hitler or Stalin thought in, and it is a thing of the past, of the 19th and 20th century, it is so much out of date and not en vogue, hell, how could one dare to think in terms of Realpolitik?
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I think the problem you face with peoples reception of your "realpolitik" is the completely contradictory avenues you take, which you reverse on a whim, or as you adopt a new ideologogy which you see as the latest ultimate truth you have read about, Egypt being a prime example.
Nasty dictator, no friend of the west, creeping islamification, persecution of Christians, the west really needs to wake up and do something about this...fast forward to all hail the new dictator who is the same as the old dictator and the west had better not do anything about this.
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Two lessons are to be learned. First, our militaries need to be brought back into better shape, especially in Europe.
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Now I seem to remember an individual complaining about military spending in Europe and how European countries were wasting their money on weapons that they couldn't possibly need. That wouldn't have been you would it?
