Not in terms of having specific goals, no. But tell me how you would compromise with the historical issue of slavery as a domestic issue. How much compromise do you accept in order to maintain union? Keep the states together? Can you stomach any compromise (and providing you don't have the manpower to impose Realpolitik on the battlefield).
"The great practitioners of Realpolitik generally tended to fail, not because their policies weren't based on realism in practice but because they were agents of people who wanted to accomplish unrealistic ends."
Of course, because the only way Realpolitik would fail is if forces outside of it's representatives impose themselves on the negotiations. This doesn't sound like an idealistic defense of Realpolitik at all.
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Not in terms of having specific goals, no. But tell me how you would compromise with the historical issue of slavery as a domestic issue. How much compromise do you accept in order to maintain union? Keep the states together? Can you stomach any compromise (and providing you don't have the manpower to impose Realpolitik on the battlefield).
"The great practitioners of Realpolitik generally tended to fail, not because their policies weren't based on realism in practice but because they were agents of people who wanted to accomplish unrealistic ends."
Of course, because the only way Realpolitik would fail is if forces outside of it's representatives impose themselves on the negotiations. This doesn't sound like an idealistic defense of Realpolitik at all.