Instead of confronting today's new and very real enemy, they would rather confront the old, traditional one - the West. After the Beslan tragedy, Putin offered an exotic explanation of terrorism: the terrorists, he claimed, are instruments in the hands of those who still fear Russia as a nuclear power.
比起与今天新的、实实在在的敌人作战，他们更愿意对抗过去的传统敌人－西方。别斯兰惨剧发生后，普京对恐怖主义做出了奇怪的解释，他说，恐怖分子不过是害怕俄国核力量的人手中的工具。