Nor will any posture succeed that seeks to put Russia forward as a geopolitical counterweight to the United States. Such a strategy might be politically satisfying to some, but Russia lacks the resources to compete with the US and needs good bilateral relations in order to proceed with its own internal transformation.
任何将俄罗斯强装为美国的地缘政治劲敌的企图也无法成功。对于某些人而言，这种战略在政治上可能是令人满意的，但是俄罗斯缺乏同美国竞争的资源，而且它需要良好的双边关系以便继续进行其自身的内部变革。