Chanakya, Machiavelli and Bismarck had one thing in common. They were all master tacticians. They have the best ways to wriggle themselves out of tight situations. In other words, they were Houdinis of realpolitik. Politics is a strange animal. There is a thin line when a politician morphs to be a statesman. Churchill is hailed as a statesman, but tell that to the people of Bengal who perished in one of the world's most enormous man-made famines. Washington was a statesman too, but tell that to slaves who were uprooted from their villages and endured a torturous voyage across the Atlantic to be sold off as a commodity. Some people would classify politicians as diametrically opposite to statesmen. Politicians work with the next elections on their minds, whereas statesmen think of the future, supposedly, of the region he represents. His interest is, in a way, self-absorbing. He is not bothered about doing the humane and fair thing or how his actions will affect the rest of the world...
It is all Mimesis