And can anyone believe, even fleetingly, that Russia’s intervention will lessen, rather than aggravate, Syria’s refugee crisis? Putin’s methods are forcing tens of thousands of civilians to flee indiscriminate airstrikes, clearing the way for the death squads of a regime that in recent months had been showing signs of exhaustion, and dashing any remaining hope of creating effective safe zones in northern Jordan and southern Turkey.
你能相信——即使是短暂地相信——俄罗斯干预将缓解而非加剧叙利亚的难民危机吗？普京的方法正在迫使数以万计的平民逃离无差别空袭，为几个月来疲态尽露的政权的杀戮小队扫清道路，并且彻底断绝任何在约旦北部和土耳其南部建立有效安全区的希望。