South Africa and India also continue to punch below their apparent weight internationally (notwithstanding Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visibility). As for Russia, the only traditional world leader of the bunch, the Kremlin’s Ukraine policy has done severe damage to the country’s international profile – damage that not even its possible diplomatic coup in Syria can undo.
（尽管印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪非常有名），但南非和印度仍然未能发挥他们应有的国际影响。至于传统世界领袖中唯一的俄罗斯，克里姆林宫的乌克兰政策已经严重损害了该国的国际形象——就连俄国在叙利亚可能的外交政变也无法挽回他们的形象。