Primakov was insisting that Moscow could not accept a NATO committed to the defense of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic — the very states forced into the Soviet empire 50 years ago.

普利马科夫坚持莫斯科不能接受北约组织承担对波兰、匈牙利和捷克共和国的防御义务——正是这几个国家五十年前被强行纳入苏维埃帝国。

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The situation being such as it is, our Empire for its existence and self-defense has no other recourse but to appeal to arms and to crush every obstacle in its path.

这就是目前的情况，我们帝国为了自己的生存和安全，别无选择必须诉诸武力并铲除道路上的一切障碍。

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The final straw for the Evil Empire was the Strategic Defense Initiative.

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It employed the best-offense-is-a-defense strategy, which is understandable when you were once an empire.

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They will need to keep that conversation going, because in the 10 years since the fall of the Soviet Empire, the Treasury Secretary has vaulted past the Secretaries at State and Defense in Washington's pecking order.

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