Significados de machiavellian power en inglés

This is the difference between a Machiavellian power player and a genuine dipshit.

We are the victims of some mysterious and Machiavellian power.

Or is it just a Machiavellian power grab?

With Massino and Napolitano as allies and using them as emissaries to other loyalists, Rastelli put together a pure Machiavellian power play.