[PavlovsCat]

You asked for evidence, I gave you evidence.

I'm not sure what you mean by "real world statecraft", but when I hear that I have to think of Larkin's "This Be The Verse":

fools in old-style hats and coats, / Who half the time were soppy-stern / And half at one another's throats.

[embolism]

you don't seem very constructive - which is my point

[PavlovsCat]

By giving you the evidence you asked for? Or by also making points you don't like?

Feel free to respond to either, but spare me transparent excuses for not doing so and how that is somehow my fault.

[embolism]

You didn't make a point - you just expressed an attitude.