What is new, and encouraging, about the events of the last month is that Russia has found enough common ground with the US – in their mutual anxiety about the rising influence of radical Islam in an increasingly fragmented and volatile region – to be prepared at last to do some squeezing.
上个月事件的新的令人鼓舞之处是俄罗斯与美国找到了足够多的共同点——对极端伊斯兰教在日渐脆弱和动荡地区影响力日渐上升的共同担忧——终于可以携手压制了。