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Depends on your position on philosophical realism.
I am half awake and my brain for some reason decided that you had written ‘political realism.’ I literally read it and was like ‘huh, makes sense,’ before moving on and then abruptly stopping when my actual processing finally caught up, like ‘wait, what?’
The more I sit here considering, the more it feels like political realism should really be a thing.
Looks like it actually is a thing!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(international_relations)
I was thinking more about the ‘reality’ which politicians present to people than states interacting with one another, but this is interesting too.