浑水之二：大国小国？

瘦死的骆驼大过马，俄罗斯显然会胜利，我想谁都不会预期这次冲突俄罗斯中会失败。
BBC说：
He said Russia had had no choice but to intervene following what he alleged was Georgian aggression.

Allege，这个词原本我不是认识，不过一看就不是什么好词，果然：
cambridge dictionary:

Definition

allege Show phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
to state that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof:
[+ (that)] The two men allege (that) the police forced them to make false confessions.
[+ to infinitive] Mr Smythe is alleged to have been at the centre of an international drugs ring.
[+ that] It was alleged that Johnson had struck Mr Rahim on the head.

merriam-webster

1archaic : to adduce or bring forward as a source or authority2: to assert without proof or before proving alleges the mayor's guilt>3: to bring forward as a reason or excuse.

伟大的，中立的BBC！

然后的话，让我觉得这总统作的也不容易：
"What did you want us to do? Wave our penknives in the air and wipe the bloody snot off our noses?" he asked, adding: "When an aggressor comes into your territory, you need to punch him in the face - an aggressor needs to punished."
He added that Russian tanks had, after all, only been 15km from Tbilisi and could easily have taken the Georgian capital and ousted President Mikhail Saakashvilli if they had wanted to.

方佛非要给这个“世界”一个解释。

But he also said Russia was prepared to work with Western partners and wanted a constructive relationship with the European Union but only if what he called "realities" were taken into account.

Russia, said the prime minister, should be treated as an equal partner and all sides agree on new common rules of behaviour based on international law.

唉！

再看这里：南美两位英雄：

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7611705.stm

Venezuelan President Chavez

Bolivia President Morales

他们是手中有油，心里不慌？抑或是身处南美，对北美这个超级蛮横大国不满由来已久？当然国际局势，经济变化应该也有原因的。

不过这样齐心做，给人的效益还是大的。虽然其中细节看来是我们普通人无法得知的，我却想知道这件事情结局如何。美国已经今非昔比，从前他们一定会打击报复，现在会如何还真的不得而知。

美国大选，居然在全世界动手动脚赚资本，啊，也许他们一直都是如是的。

美国势力余威还是不小的，美国本土资源也够他们自己吃一阵子。我觉得现在应该换个角度考虑。美国境内的自然资源，实在是用全世界掠夺，甚至不惜浪费污染战火而得以保全的。

国际局势，运筹帷幄，有时候是上层之间的较量，不过国民阵脚的稳定更加重要。西方媒体绝对没起到什么好作用，把水越搅越混而已。

是慢性毒药，也是慢性麻醉药。

这两天对人性的一点思考

人的内心对自己，或者对自己世界等等的一个“范围”和希望，往往是和自己的本身能力有区别的。尤其是现代的我们，拥有了人类智慧的不少积累，站在无数巨人的肩上，以为自己看得特别远。
其实呢，真正迈步的时候，自己的步子往往还是那么小不点。
有时候还不自知。

反过来想，那些曾经认为瞎糊弄的人们，也许他们的程度并没有那么差，也许世上如我所期望的看清的人们并没有那么多。甚至并不处于我认为的那个阶层。这么多年，历史上的名字千千万万，每个都好像很近，这些大人物被我们随意评判。然而他们的思维和命运究竟如何，他们的个人幸福，对人性的了解是什么样的。或者真的有我们想象得那么深浅么。有谁知道。

不得不说，芸芸众生和他们集体所印象中的集体，都是有距离的。每个个体的距离可能不同，这可以通过提高现实和降低印象两个手段来完成。

总之要站得高看得广，也要能低头看得清自己。