即使在去年夏天俄罗斯与格鲁吉亚短暂的战争危机期间，当进行选择变得极其尖锐的时候，西方也没有为这个问题提供一个确定的答案。
Even when this choice became critically acute during the crisis of Russia’s short war against Georgia last summer, the West didn’t provide a conclusive answer to this question.