In his State of the Union address days after Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine, President Joe Biden listed measures the US was taking to punish Russia in a “battle between democracy and autocracy”. Yet as the west has sought to isolate one autocrat, it has been forced to seek help from others: Saudi Arabia and its fellow absolute monarchies in the oil-rich Gulf.
在弗拉基米尔•普京(Vladimir Putin)的军队入侵乌克兰几天后，美国总统乔•拜登(Joe Biden)在他的国情咨文讲话中列出了美国将在“民主与独裁之间的斗争”中惩罚俄罗斯的措施。然而，在西方寻求孤立俄罗斯的同时，它被迫向其他国家寻求帮助：沙特阿拉伯以及石油资源丰富的海湾地区的其他君主专制国家。
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