Most threatening, however, is the possibility that the EU could collapse, triggering a third unfreezing. The EU, established to break the destructive cycle of European nationalism that had facilitated the rise of two totalitarian systems and caused two world wars, amounted to the creation of a prototype of a humane world order.
但是，最大的威胁乃是欧盟解体并触发第三次解冻的可能性。欧盟的建立本是为了打破欧洲民族主义的破坏性循环——导致两次世界大战的两大极权制度的崛起都是拜这一循环所赐——后来它也成为人类世界秩序的样板。在充当了几百年自身——以及全世界——最险恶的敌人之后，欧洲变身为和平的明灯。