但是，普京在此犯了一个大错误，因为所有这些目标对西方来说都是无法接受的，而且克里姆林宫似乎仍不明白，北约存在最好并且最有效的保证，在过去，在现在和在将来，都是具有攻击性的俄罗斯外交政策。
But Putin is making a big mistake here, because all these aims are unacceptable for the West, and the Kremlin still doesn’t seem to understand that the best and most effective guarantee of NATO’s existence was, is, and will continue to be an aggressive Russian foreign policy.