"REALISM AND METAPHYSICS"

"Much of the political analysis espoused by a lot of commentators is based upon an international-relations theory known as ‘realism’ which is about nation-states who seek the preservation of their ‘national interest’. You find commentators who whisper to themselves and publicly bloating that they believe that principles don’t really matter and they discuss their denial of metaphysics. They believe that if a nation-state does espouse principles, they conduct themselves where their interests align with their principles."

"Whilst you do find nation-states who contradict themselves against the principles they espouse, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the principles that were espoused are false. Whilst the realist probably doesn’t care much about philosophical arguments and he prefers practical arguments (which is quite interesting where the philosophy of pragmatism values practical utility) yet it could be argued that realism contradicts pragmatism if it is argued that realism is actually a version of egoism."

"The egoism of realism is implicit in the ‘national interest’ where it is interpreted that the realist seeks to maximise his selfishness of the nation-state. And if you have witnessed egoistic behaviour on the streets where the man feels urge to attack even when it is probable that the police plan to arrest him if he assaulted someone or when some women who engages in gossip against someone more beautiful than her whilst smiling in front of her beautiful competitor. That kind of behaviour is not unheard of in international relations. That kind of behaviour is actually very common in international relations (interestingly the female egoistic behaviour is quite similar to how countries conduct their diplomacy whilst the male egoistic behaviour is similar to how countries conduct their military affairs) where there is a difference between egoism and rationality."

"Egoism and rationality isn’t the same thing where there are cases that where nation-states have done things that were not motivated by cold-calculation but a response to personal attacks. Saudi Arabia did cut ties with Canada after bin Salman felt insulted by canada. In the case of America where they sent a navy out of their supposed desire of protecting trade routes in response to the houthi strikes even when the ships still was flowing. It was until the Americans intervened is when majority of the ships diverted from the Suez Canal. In the case of iran, it demonstrates a desire of non-retaliation against zionist strikes out of their desire of survival yet this desire motivated the Zionists towards a more aggressive position towards iran."

"There are a lot of cases where the nation-state preferred entertaining the ego over ‘cold pragmatism’, which shows the nation-state is not a cold actor but an actor that seeks to maximise his ego. The realist is no pragmatist. He is an individual who is concerned about his ego. He is someone who believes in the metaphysics of egoism where the statements uttered by nation-states are statements that are in accordance with egoism."