Instead, even as the Games were proceeding, Putin launched a semi-covert military intervention in Ukraine, which, together with his talk of Russian nationalism, has induced severe anxiety, particularly among ex-Soviet countries. This has undermined Putin’s own stated objective of establishing a Russia-led Eurasian Union to compete with the European Union.
相反，尽管冬奥会仍在进行，俄罗斯仍然发动了对乌克兰的半隐蔽军事干预，再加上他的俄罗斯民族主义言论，激发了各国特别是前苏联国家的严重关注。这有悖于普京自己宣称的目标——建立俄罗斯领导的欧亚联盟对抗欧洲联盟。