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Sabotage is a central component of the Kremlin’s statecraft, and random acts of subversion—believed to be orchestrated by Moscow—have proliferated across Europe since Russian tanks and missiles began pummeling Ukraine three years ago.
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Trump values unpredictability as an asset of statecraft and dealmaking, and there was nothing predictable about a U.S. president who campaigned on getting the United States out of the Middle East, then green-lighting airstrikes to neuter Tehran’s nuclear program.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
It is less firmly established that a young Carême played an active role in statecraft, and yet that’s exactly what this frothy, flirty and above all fun show presupposes.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
Only once in the past hundred years, at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, did China and the United States find themselves completely at loggerheads on both dimensions of statecraft.
—William Hurst, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Trump values unpredictability as an asset of statecraft and dealmaking, and there was nothing predictable about a U.S. president who campaigned on getting the United States out of the Middle East, then green-lighting airstrikes to neuter Tehran’s nuclear program.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
It is less firmly established that a young Carême played an active role in statecraft, and yet that’s exactly what this frothy, flirty and above all fun show presupposes.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
Only once in the past hundred years, at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, did China and the United States find themselves completely at loggerheads on both dimensions of statecraft.
—William Hurst, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for statecraft
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“Statecraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/statecraft. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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statecraft
noun
state·craft
ˈstāt-ˌkraft 
: the art of conducting government affairs
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