But Russia itself has no worse loss for the United States right now could find ways to keep us so tight down in the Middle East for a decade that we could do nothing else.

俄罗斯现在还没有对美利益造成太大损害,有办法,让我们紧紧围绕在中东问题上,在十年内我们只有束手无策。

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no immediate problem but if this continues onto the end of the decade, re approaching right now, there is going to be a disaster.

不会有立竿见影的问题,但如果继续这样做的话，十年以后，也就是我们现在这个时候，which，is，what，we’,会发生灾难。

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