The new sanctions against Russia agreed by the EU on Tuesday are described by European officials as “level three”. This implies higher levels still to come if Russia’s approach to Ukraine fails to satisfy the US and EU – the logical end point being, as in some computer game, a final confrontation with the supreme adversary: President Vladimir Putin. All such talk of levels obscures the reality that there are only two types of sanctions.
歐盟(EU)週二通過的對俄羅斯的新制裁被歐盟官員描述爲「第三級」。這暗示著如果俄羅斯對烏克蘭的舉措不能令美國和歐盟滿意，俄羅斯可能會面臨更高級別的制裁。按照這樣的邏輯，如同在一些電腦遊戲中一樣，終點會是西方與最高對手——俄羅斯總統弗拉迪米爾•普丁(Vladimir Putin)來一場對決。像這樣對制裁級別的討論模糊了一個事實：其實只有兩種制裁。
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