First, whatever the brutal style of the new Russia under Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev, the Soviet Union no longer exists and no longer constitutes the common threat that was the “glue” of the Alliance until 1989. Unless something very wrong happens, a new cold war is not about to start.
首先，无论在弗拉基米尔·普金和德米特里·梅德维杰夫治下的新俄罗斯行事多么蛮横，苏联已经不复存在，也不再构成对欧美的共同威胁，这种威胁直到1989年都把欧美黏在一起。除非发生了相当离谱的事，新的冷战不会开始。