We are now seeing this strategy at work again as President Vladimir Putin stealthily seeks to restore Kremlin supremacy over the lands treated as “lost” when the USSR imploded in 1991. In so overplaying his hand in Ukraine’s recent election, however, Putin clearly revealed to the world his neo-imperialist designs.
现在我们却又看到了弗拉基米尔·普京正在不动声色底秘密谋求恢复克林姆林宫的统治霸权，找回1991年苏联解体后“丢失的”对这片土地的控制权。在近期乌克兰大选中，普京冒险插了一手，却向世界表明了他的新帝国主义规划。