核力量与俄罗斯的大国地位

Nuclear Force And Russia's Power Status

俄罗斯独立之初,曾希望借助西方的力量恢复俄罗斯的强国地位,挤进西方大国行列。但美国和西方从冷战思维出发,并不希望俄罗斯重新繁荣。北约东扩更使俄罗斯战略空间缩小,地缘环境日益恶化。现实迫使俄罗斯改变了其军事战略和核战略,形成了以核力量为核心的大国复兴战略。核力量对支撑俄的大国地位的确有着明显的作用。然而,独立以来持续的政治动荡和失败的经济改革使俄罗斯虚弱不堪,经济实力的严重下降又使这种支撑作用受到很大制约。

At the beginning of its independence, Russia had anticipated it would resume the status of being a great power with the aid of the west and become a partner of western countries. But out of the Cold War thought, the U.S and other western countries are not willing to see Russia regain prosperity. NATO enlargement makes Russia face compressed strategic space and worsening geopolitical circumstance. This compels Russia to alter its military and nuclear strategy and to form a strategy of resuming its status, which depends mainly on its nuclear force. Protracted political turbulence and the failure in its economic reform, however, have severely weakened Russia since its independence And what's more sharp decline of economic strength inevitably places restrictions on the new strategy.