When I served as NATO Secretary General from 2009 to 2014, we repeatedly emphasized that the purpose was to defend Alliance members from threats originating outside the Euro-Atlantic area. Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of physics and engineering – two subjects at which Russians excel – can see that the system is designed to do precisely that.
当然，俄罗斯领导人十分清楚，北约的导弹防御并没有对准俄罗斯。2009—2014年我出任北约秘书长期间，我们一再强调，北约导弹防御系统的目的是保护盟友免受来自欧洲-大西洋地区之外的威胁。只要你稍懂物理学和工程学——俄罗斯人对这两个学科可是很擅长的——就能看出，该系统正是为了这一目的而设。