目前，西方领导人正用自己手中的牌尽力施展腾挪，阻止了德国总理默克尔的早期失误 — — 她认为俄罗斯深思熟虑的地区利益主张只是一位与现实脱节的领袖的行为。
Thus far, Western leaders have played their cards about as well as they could, barring early missteps by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who described a calculated assertion of Russia’s regional interests as the behavior of a leader who was out of touch with reality.