In what way did Nietzsche support Machiavelli?

Question

I was reading the Introduction to Nietzsche and it was explaining how he said even though he despised politics, if he had to chose the lesser of all evils, he'd chose a Machiavellian standpoint.

In what way?

I'm not very well versed with Machiavelli so what exactly did Nietzsche find attractive about. (I think, besides Shopenhauer and Dostoyvsky, Machiavelli was the only other philosopher who was in anyway complemented or approved of by the extremely critical Nietzsche)

Answer 1

In Nietzsche's view, Machiavelli's work was a valuation of politics of the higher man, whose will was unobstructed by the abtract claims for equality and unreasonable demands for justice would later come to demoniate the democratic world.