The United States is headed the way of Rome and the Soviet Union, for the same reasons, unless we reverse the trend.

美利坚合众国正在朝着罗马和苏联的结局走去，原因是同样的，除非我们扭转这种趋势。

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Examples include the breakup of the Soviet Union and the race for control of oil deposits in the newly independent states.

案例包括前苏联的解体以及各个新独立国家间为争夺石油储备的控制权而展开的竞赛。

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There was a massive wave of scientists who left Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Mathematicians, physicists, and biologists took whole laboratories to the United States.

但这并非第一次科学家移民潮，苏联解体之后就有大量的科学家离开俄国，许多数学家、物理学家、生物学家们把整个实验室都搬到了美国。

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But his flight gave Americans the feeling that the United States could pull ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race.

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When the Iron Curtain lifted, we expanded our alliance to include the nations of Central and Eastern Europe, and built new bridges to Russia and the former states of the Soviet Union.

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From 1995 to 1998, he served as Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance to the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.

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