(Bush’s inattentiveness to this Russian threat – dramatically illustrated by his literal embrace of Putin in Beijing as Russian tanks rolled into Georgia – may have led the Kremlin to think it could get away with its invasion.) While the West will not going to war over Georgia, Russia must understand that it will pay for using force, or the threat of force, against neighbors that were once part of the Soviet space.
& & & 当然，俄欧关系也会受到影响。(布什对于俄国的威胁不以为然，当俄军坦克开进格鲁吉亚的时候，他在北京几乎拥抱普京极大地表现出这一点。这或许让克里姆林宫认为他们可以入侵格鲁吉亚而逍遥法外。)尽管西方不会因为格鲁吉亚而开战，但是俄国必须知道，针对曾经是苏联一部分的邻国使用武力或者威胁使用武力，它就要付出代价。