He said there is "the very real possibility of collective military irrelevance" for the alliance.

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That made some populations mobile because they had to move from place to place to find food, but of course, it made starvation a very real possibility.

那样使得部分人口开始流动,人们不得不不断地迁徙,寻找食物,当然 自然灾害也造成了饥荒

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Does he hold it out as a real possibility ? or must it be considered a failure in some way or that if the dialogue does end in failure ? what can we learn from that?

他是否坚持真有可能性,或那必需被多少视为是一项失败,如果对话以失败结束,我们又能从中学到什么？

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So one possibility is: this 30% of people in the real world who choose Beta are just nice people.

现实中30%的人选择了β,可能因为他们是好人

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And I think it made a marginal but real contribution to the possibility of normalization of relations there.

我觉得我们的贡献不大，但实实在在,帮助实现了两国的重新建交。

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