Putin’s implicit point was that “Christian energy,” even if “Orthodox,” would be more reassuringly certain than “Muslim energy” for a Western world jittery about stability in the Middle East.
普京这番话的弦外之音是“基督教能源”，甚至是“东正教”的，都会比“穆斯林能源”更让在中东稳定问题上神经过敏的西方世界放心。