In particular, the Russian utility giant Gazprom uses increases in gas prices as a means to punish “disobedient” neighbors.

尤其是俄罗斯的公用事业巨头俄罗斯天然气工业公司通过提高天然气的价格来作为惩罚“不听话 ”的邻国的手段。

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Flawed geo-political giants have in the past been a source of instability (Germany before World War I is an obvious analogy), and there are good reasons to see them presenting increased risk in the twenty-first century.

地缘政治存在缺陷的大国在过去是不稳定的缘由(一次世界大战前的德国就是明显的例子)，而且有理由看到它们在二十一世纪带来更大的风险。

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The current moment of American weakness coincides with a substantially changed international political environment, defined largely by the limits of US power, Europe’s ineffectiveness, and the emergence of new global giants like China and India.

美国现时的软弱是与经历了深刻变化的国际政治环境相关的，其特点是美国势力的局限，欧洲的无所作为和中国、印度等新的全球大国的出现。

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