The British general Lord Ismay was famously blunt about Nato’s organising mission. The goal of the alliance, its first secretary-general said, was “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”. Seventy years after Nato’s founding treaty, Russia remains a threat, the Americans have stayed and German ambitions have been if anything unduly modest.
关于北约(Nato)的使命，众所周知，英国将军伊斯梅勋爵(Lord Ismay)说得很直白。这位北约第一任秘书长说，北约的宗旨，就是“把俄罗斯人挡在外面，让美国人进来，让德国人安分”。自这个联盟的创始条约签署以来，70年过去了，俄罗斯依然是一个威胁，美国人还在，德国如果说有什么过分之处的话，它的野心都不算大。
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