This year’s Munich Security Conference returned to the theme of great power conflict, which many thought had ended with the cold war almost three decades ago. Against a morbid backdrop of three aircraft — Russian, Turkish and Israeli — being downed over Syria, Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of this gathering of defence and security policymakers, said that “at no time since the collapse of the Soviet Union has the risk of armed conflict between major powers been as high as it is today”.
今年的慕尼黑安全會議(Munich Security Conference)重拾大國沖突主題,而很多人曾經以為這種沖突在近30年前就結束了。在3架飛機(俄羅斯、土耳其和以色列)在敘利亞上空被擊落的可怕背景下,會議主席沃爾夫岡?伊申格爾(Wolfgang Ischinger)表示,“自蘇聯解體以來,大國之間發生武裝沖突的風險從沒有像現在這么高。”