It is Machiavellian, in the sense that it revolves around the question of how to maintain power.
disapproval If you describe someone as Machiavellian, you are critical of them because they often make clever and secret plans to achieve their aims and are not honest with people. Machiavellian republicans plotting to destabilise the throne A Machiavellian plot was suspected. = devious. using clever but immoral methods to get what you want = devious
Attempting to achieve what one wants by cunning, scheming and unscrupulous methods