The other day l heard Sergei Lavrov explain Moscow’s backing for Bashar al-Assad’s murderous repression in Syria. Russia’s foreign minister, I admit, did not express it quite like that. A former career diplomat, Mr Lavrov is a clever man. He deployed all manner of casuistry to explain that, contrary to vicious western propaganda, Russia was acting in an entirely even-handed way. This was a journey back to the cold war.
前幾天，我聽到俄羅斯外長謝爾蓋•拉夫羅夫(Sergei Lavrov)解釋俄羅斯對巴沙爾•阿薩德(Bashar al-Assad)在敘利亞的殘暴鎮壓的支持。我承認，他的原話與此稍有不同。拉夫羅夫是職業外交官出身，他是一個聰明的人。他以各種形式的詭辯解釋道，與惡毒的西方宣傳相反，俄羅斯的做法完全是不偏不倚的。這是一條重回冷戰的道路。
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