But no amount of money will succeed in modernizing Putin's kleptocratic regime, which has already squandered trillions in oil wealth. Simply put, the Putin system is politically, institutionally, and intellectually antithetical to the task of modernization.
可是多少钱都无法实现普京窃国政权的现代化，他们已经挥霍了数万亿美元的石油财富。简言之，普京的制度无论在政治、制度还是知识结构上都与现代化的目标背道而驰。