A year ago Crimea became a part of Russia, causing a long stand-off between Moscow and the west. The conflict over Ukraine is a belated salvo of the cold war, provoked on both sides: by the euphoria of the west, which viewed its success in the confrontation of the late 20th century as proof of its moral and political supremacy, and by Russia’s desire to take revenge for its dramatic fall from the height of a superpower to barely short of a second-grade crippled state.
一年前，克里米亞成為俄羅斯的一部分，引發(fā)了莫斯科與西方之間的長時間對峙。圍繞烏克蘭產(chǎn)生的沖突，是“冷戰(zhàn)”這座火山遲來的一次噴發(fā)，它是由莫斯科與西方雙方面的因素引起的：一方面是西方忘乎所以——西方將其在20世紀(jì)末的對抗中取得的勝利視為其道德和政治更勝一籌的證據(jù)；另一方面是，俄羅斯面對自己從高高在上的超級大國淪為幾乎算是二流跛腳國家的巨大落差，渴望報復(fù)西方。
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