For what Russia’s president is now offering Ukraine is a perverse twist on the formula Trotsky proclaimed during the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk in 1918: “No war, no peace.” In doing so, Putin has not only moved to trap my country in a frozen conflict that will prevent both democracy and the economy from flourishing; he has shredded the rules and norms that have kept the peace in Europe for three generations.
基辅&mdash;&mdash;2014年，普京找到了内心的托洛茨基。之所以这样说是因为俄总统要求乌克兰接受“不战不和”这一1918年托洛茨基曾在布列斯特和谈中用过的恶意扭曲的解决方式。普京这样做不仅将我的祖国推入“冷冲突”陷阱，致使民主和经济繁荣不再；他还亲手撕碎了欧洲三代人赖以维护和平的法律和规则。