By overplaying its hand in Afghanistan and lying to the world about the downing of KAL 007, the Soviet regime exposed and accelerated the rot that made its collapse inevitable. There is no reason to believe in a different fate for Putin’s effort to re-establish Russia as an imperial power.
在阿富汗的不自量力以及在大韩航空007航班坠毁事件上的撒谎让苏联体制的腐败暴露于众。加速腐败导致苏联的崩溃难以避免。没有理由相信普京重塑俄罗斯帝国的努力会有不同的结果。