西方欧盟不应主动出击与俄罗斯为敌

2014-10-08 16:55:34来源：可可英语

　　The Soviet Union’s sunset years hardly felt like aninnocent age to those who lived through them, butto recall the hopes and aspirations of that era is torue the naiveties of those days. “A commonEuropean house” was how President MikhailGorbachev pictured the continent’s future; “a Europewhole and free”, in the words of George HW Bush,his American counterpart. But, as the tussle overUkraine has shown, Russia and the west are rivalsonce again. The ceasefire signed on September 5gives both sides a chance to overcome their ownillusions. They should take it, lest the conflict become a direct military confrontation.

　　对曾经亲身经历过那个年代的人而言，苏联(Soviet Union)日薄西山那些年很难算“纯真年代”。但回想那个时代的希望和憧憬，我们一定会为那时的天真感到后悔。当时的俄罗斯总统米哈伊尔•戈尔巴乔夫(MikhailGorbachev)这样描述欧洲大陆的未来——“一个共同的欧洲大家园”，用当时的美国总统老布什(George HWBush)的话来说则是——“一个统一而自由的欧洲”。然而，围绕乌克兰的争吵显示出，俄罗斯和西方又一次成为了对手。9月5日签订的停火协议给了双方一个克服各自幻觉的机会。他们应该抓住这个机会，以免冲突演变成直接的军事对抗。

　　Western leaders seem to believe their own propaganda. A failed Ukraine, they suggest, couldbe cradled into western Europe and become democratic and prosperous – and maybe it could,if they waited 20 years and could count on energetic support from Russia. But Moscow, theyare convinced, is hell-bent on grabbing land, a hunger from which it can be distracted onlythrough the infliction of pain. Hence the sanctions, the war of disinformation and thereinvigoration of Nato as a military force.

　　西方领袖似乎相信了他们自己的宣传。他们提出，一个失败的乌克兰可以被西欧抱在怀里，变得民主和富强。或许吧，如果他们能再等20年，并且能够指望俄罗斯的大力支持。但他们确信，俄罗斯政府铁了心要抢夺地盘，除非吃到苦头，否则不会收敛。因此，西方对俄罗斯实施了制裁，打起了假消息战，并努力重振北约(NATO)作为军事组织的雄风。

　　It is a strategy that rests on misunderstanding and miscalculation. Themisunderstanding is that this is, at root, a stand-off over Ukraine. To Russians, it issomething far more important: a struggle to stop others expanding their sphere of controlinto territories they believe are vital to Russia’s survival.

　　西方的这种战略是基于误解和误判。误解是这个问题在本质上是围绕乌克兰的对峙。对俄罗斯而言，这是个重要得多的问题：这是一场斗争，目的是阻止其他人将势力范围扩大到在俄罗斯看来对其生存至关重要的地盘。

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