The British general Lord Ismay was famously blunt about Nato’s organising mission. The goal of the alliance, its first secretary-general said, was “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”. Seventy years after Nato’s founding treaty, Russia remains a threat, the Americans have stayed and German ambitions have been if anything unduly modest.
關於北約(Nato)的使命，衆所周知，英國將軍伊斯梅勳爵(Lord Ismay)說得很直白。這位北約第一任祕書長說，北約的宗旨，就是「把俄羅斯人擋在外面，讓美國人進來，讓德國人安分」。自這個聯盟的創辦條約簽署以來，70年過去了，俄羅斯依然是一個威脅，美國人還在，德國如果說有什麼過分之處的話，它的野心都不算大。
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