Likewise, the failure of Chechnya, Biafra, Tibet, or the Kurdish areas of the Middle East to reach independent statehood is attributable entirely to their military impotence. By contrast, Eritrea, East Timor, and parts of the former Yugoslavia achieved independence by exhausting their occupiers and/or their internal rivals.
同样，车臣、比夫拉、西藏以及中东的库尔德人地区没能获得独立完全是因为它们的军事力量薄弱。相反，厄立特里亚、东帝汶、前南斯拉夫的地区能获得独立是因为它们耗尽了占领者或者国内敌对势力的力量。