当地时间2月24日,美国国务卿布林肯(Antony Blinken)接受美媒采访,在被问及美国向乌克兰提供援助时,他表示此举是因为“大多数美国人发自内心地不喜欢看到一个大国欺负他国(viscerally most Americans don’t like to see a big country bullying another)”。此番言论在国外社交媒体引发嘲讽。↓
Asked about the billions of dollars provided to Ukraine in a CBS television interview aired lastFriday,US Secretary of State Antony Blinken answered, "I think viscerally most Americans don't like to see a big country bullying another, and they just feel it's wrong and want to do something about it."
“The taxpayers have been incredibly generous, and we have to make sure that we’re using their money wisely in Ukraine,”he said.
But fundamentally, what’s going on is this: After two World Wars, the world came together and started the United Nations. And the objective was to prevent another world war. And countries around the world agreed on some basic rules, some basic principles like one country just can’t attack its neighbor, it can’t try to seize its land by force, can’t try to erase it from the map, can’t bully it.
“That’s exactly what Russia is doing. So, its aggression against Ukraine isn’t just an aggression against the people of Ukraine; it’s an aggression against those very principles that are at the heart of maintaining peace and stability. So, if you let that go unchecked, Pandora’s box open, aggressors everywhere come out; we’re living in a world of conflict,”Blinken claimed.
Commenting on Blinken’s remarks, RussianForeign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said she thought a secretary of state would need to know his own country’s history, and offered the US official a refresher course.
“I could be mistaken, but I thought Blinken was representing the US, and not some other country,” the diplomat said on Telegram. “Was it not the US that attacked Iraq? Or was Iraq not small enough?” she added.
扎哈罗娃还指出,美国历史虽然短暂,却血腥。她表示,美国对不顺从其意志的国家怀有敌意。
“The history of the United States, though short, is bloody and amounts to a country hostile to nations that do not obey its will,” Zakharova noted.
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