Unfortunately, equating the current situation in the Caucasus with the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 does not attest to this kind of realism. Neither the West nor NATO constitutes the decisive strategic threat facing Russia, which comes from the Islamic South and from the Far East, in particular the emerging superpower, China.
不幸的是，把目前高加索地区的形势等同于1968年苏联对捷克斯洛伐克的入侵，并不能解释这种现实主义。西方和北约现在都构不成对俄罗斯重大的战略威胁，而威胁是来自南部的伊斯兰和远东地区，尤其是崛起的超级大国中国。还有，如今的俄罗斯的国力根本不能和前苏联相比。