By ramping up sanctions on Moscow in response to its persistent destabilisation of Ukraine, the US and its European allies are closing a chapter in their relationship with post-communist Russia. They are recognising the breakdown of a 25-year effort to forge constructive ties with a state whose behaviour, it was once hoped, would depart from the suspicious self-isolation of the communist era.
針對俄羅斯持續擾亂烏克蘭的行爲,美國及其歐洲盟友加大了對俄羅斯的制裁,這意味著它們與後共產主義俄羅斯的關係的一個章節告一段落。它們意識到25年來打造與俄羅斯建設性關係的努力已經失敗。他們一度希望,俄羅斯會告別共產主義時代那些有自我孤立嫌疑的行爲。
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