2014英语四级听力练习慢速4.9(1)_大学英语听力

2014英语四级听力练习慢速4.9(1)

　　But Professor Markus says relations cooled again in , when Vladimir Putin was re-elected president. Any progress to improve relations, he says, ended with Russias annexation of Crimea.

　　Republican Party lawmakers strongly criticized the administrations reset policy as Russia tightened its hold on Crimea. Senator John McCain described the presidents earlier policy toward Russia as na?ve.

　　Former President Jimmy Carter would recognize some of the criticism. He faced a similar situation when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. President Carter describes his reaction to the invasion.

　　I withdrew my ambassador. I broke diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. I declared a grain embargo against them. I supported the Congress and the Olympic Committee in withholding our contestants from the 1980 Olympics.

　　But much has changed in the 35 years since Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. Russia has increased its economic ties with the rest of the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Mr. Carter notes that President Obama has fewer choices to deal with the Russian aggression than he had.

　　Threatening an embargo, even threatening military action in my opinion, would not have deterred Putin from doing that.

　　Stinislav Markus says ordering economic restrictions on Russia could increase support for President Putin.

　　Crippling the economy by, say, imposing certain embargoes on Russian energy, which obviously a lot of Russian state revenue depends on energy exports, that would have an impact on the Russian people which automatically would be interpreted in Russia as actually confirming what Putin has been saying all along, that a lot of people in the West have not left the past behind, have not left the Cold War behind, they want Russia to be on its knees.