The EU’s twenty-first-century dream now confronts the nineteenth-century Czarist bear, flashing its atavistic claws on the Russia-Ukraine border. And, just as ASEAN has been unable and unwilling to stand up to China over its encroachment in the South China Sea, the EU is already discovering the limits of its soft-power, consensus-driven approach to Russia.
欧盟二十一世纪之梦现在正遭遇到十九世纪​​沙皇俄国熊的挑战，俄国已将过时已久的魔爪伸向了俄罗斯乌克兰边境。正像东盟不能也不愿对抗中国对南海的侵略一样，欧盟已经觉察到用软实力和以共识为基础的方法来抗拒俄罗斯有很多不尽人意之处。