NEW YORK – By invading Ukraine in 2014, President Vladimir Putin’s Russia has posed a fundamental challenge to the values and principles on which the European Union was founded, and to the rules-based system that has kept the peace in Europe since 1945. Neither Europe’s leaders nor its citizens are fully aware of the scope of this challenge, much less how to deal with it.
纽约—2014年入侵乌克兰意味着俄罗斯总统普京对作为欧盟成立基础的价值和原则以及对自1945年以来保持欧洲和平的基于规则的体系进行了根本挑战。欧洲领导人和欧洲人民都没有充分认识到这一挑战的规模，更不用说如何应对这一挑战了。