His operation in Syria is partly designed to divert attention from his dismemberment of Ukraine. And his thinly veiled threats against the Baltic states, Poland, Finland, and now Turkey – whose airspace and relations with NATO have been probed by Russian aircraft – reveal a strategy of aggression that has as its chief goal the weakening of Europe.
普京不仅仅是自己放火的消防员，他是老派帝国主义者。他的叙利亚行动部分是为了分散人们对他分裂乌克兰的注意力。而他对巴尔干国家、波兰、芬兰以及现在的土耳其的几乎不加掩饰的威胁——这些国家的空域以及与北约的关系都受到俄罗斯飞机的威胁——揭示出他的一套侵略战略，其主要目标是削弱欧洲。