We all know that the situation there is extremely difficult.

大家都知道阿富汗的局势很紧张。

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It stands in a relation of opposition to other regime types and as a consequence the possibility of conflict of tension and war is built in to the very structure of politics.

它站在一个与其它政体类型对立的位置,而且可能以冲突作结,或造成紧张局势,而战争更是建立在政治的结构之中。

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