Their economy dwindling, population shrinking, of which 15% are Muslims. They face the biggest clock bomb of Islamic terrorism in the world, and seem quite unable to cut the wire. 

譯 冬川豆

俄羅斯是一個威脅，但不像力薄儒的“自由主義”那樣具有威脅性。因為俄羅斯不在我們內部，不能從我們這裡獲取任何東西。普京正在試圖營造一個超出俄國國力所能支撐的超級力量的假象。冒着黑煙的庫茲涅佐夫號航母剛剛通過英吉利海峽去轟炸敘利亞，結果立刻淪為了全世界的笑柄。他們的船破敗不堪，年久失修；他們的飛機老舊落後，缺乏保養。土耳其擊落了他們的噴氣式轟炸機，普京回應了什麼？沒有。他們的經濟正在萎縮，人口正在衰減，其中15％是穆斯林。他們面對世界上最大的伊斯蘭恐怖主義時鐘炸彈，卻無法切斷電線。

Russia is trying to be influential, however it's not even a nice try. Nobody is subject to their soft power, if they ever have any. As the article pointed out, that there's no ideology and vision whatsoever Russia or Mr. Putin could offer. I think that Mr. Putin doesn't even have an agenda or a plan to promote anything or to reshape anything. He just acted manly to show off to Russians his manliness for the sake of his manliness, and of course power grip and personal cult building. Such image engineering effort doesn't work outside Russia. They don't even have made up statistics as China has to look good. China's second hand Admiral Kuznetsov, Liaoning is by itself better equipped and less smoky, though it lacks planes to make itself really matter.

俄羅斯一直努力成為有影響力的大國，但它連有效的嘗試都做不到。沒有人受到它軟實力的影響，如果它還有什麼軟實力可言。正如那篇文章指出，俄羅斯或普京不能提出任何意識形態和願景。而我認為，普京甚至沒有一個議程或計劃來推銷或重塑任何東西。他只是為了自己的男人氣概，很男人氣概地向俄羅斯人炫耀自己的男人氣概，當然也為了鞏固自己的權威和樹立個人崇拜。這樣的面子工程不會在俄羅斯以外的地方管用。他們甚至沒有像中國一樣編造統計數據，因為中國必須看起來不錯。中國的二手庫茲涅佐夫航母——遼寧號，擁有更好的設備，不會冒黑煙，但它缺乏飛機使自己真的具備戰鬥力。

Of course, We are not as corrupt as Russia and China are. But we are becoming more like Russia and China year by year. They are serfdoms, and we are on the road to serfdom. The youngsters are abandoning what it means to be the West under the manipulation of the intelligentsia and the media. We are losing the commanding height, maybe we have already lost it. No young people takes David Hume and Adam Smith seriously, they think that affirmative action and transgenderism represent the values and essence of the West. They take cults as canons and they don't even bother with the canons. Logical and critical thinking almost vanished in our classes, and more food stamps are rationed thoughout our society. 

當然，我們不像俄羅斯和中國那麼腐敗。但我們在逐年變得更像俄羅斯和中國。他們是奴役，而我們走在“通向奴役之路”上。年輕人在知識分子和媒體的操縱下正在放棄身為一個西方人的意義。我們正在失去戰略制高點，也許我們已經失去了。沒有年輕人認真對待大衛·休謨和亞當·斯密，他們認為平權運動和變性主義代表了西方的價值觀和本質。他們把西方負典當作正典，甚至對正典不屑一顧。邏輯和批判性思維在我們的課堂上幾乎消失了，更多的食品券在我們的社會中被像大鍋飯一樣配給。

Yes, we must admit the fact that we are more divided than ever and we have already lost the faith that we could shape the world, making it a better place as we did 150 years ago. In addition to that, we as well lost the courage to face our problems. Europeans have been relying on their governments and welfare institutions for too long until the Eurozone crisis and the refugee crisis broke out. They suddenly discovered their entrusted and beloved nanny states' inability to indentify children among some 40-olds, not to mention the inability to stop terrorism. Now, Molenbeek, a district of Brussels where their highest Soviet is seated, is a hotbed for terrorism and a no police zone. And Sweden now has a rape center called Malmö. The European elites such as the French PM and the mayor of London have made it clear that you folks have to live with terrorism because we don't want to talk about it in case some feelings get hurt. Get your candles and flowers prepared for the next mass murder. 

是的我們必須承認，我們比以往任何時候都更加分裂，我們已經失去了我們可以塑造世界的信念，以及讓這個國家成為比她在150年前更偉大的國度的信心。除此之外，我們也失去了面對我們自身問題的勇氣。歐洲人一直依賴他們的政府和福利機構太久，直到歐元區危機和難民危機爆發。他們突然發現他們委託和熱愛的保姆國家無法從一些40歲左右的人當中識別出兒童，更不用說無法阻止恐怖主義。現在，布魯塞爾的莫倫貝克區——歐盟最高蘇維埃所在地，變成了恐怖主義的溫床和沒有警察看管的區域。而瑞典現在有一個叫馬爾默的強姦中心。歐洲的精英們，比如法國總理以及倫敦市長已經明確表示，你們大眾必須習慣和恐怖主義一起生活，因為我們不想討論這個話題，這會傷害某些人的感情。準備好你們的蠟燭和鮮花吧，準備在下一場大屠殺之後繼續祈福。

Such absurdity only happened under Mao's regime, or so I thought. 

這種荒謬只能發生在Mao政權之下，我以前大概會這麼想。

Our enemies are not kindergarten goers, they are not bothered by petty feelings. They behead.

我們的敵人不是幼兒園的孩子，他們不會受什麼小清新式的感情傷害。他們不斷在全世界面前割下敵人的頭。

The strongest fortresses are always taken from within. It is never the West versus the rest but always the Canon versus the Cult. The West could be never defeated if it doesn't defeat itself. 

最強的堡壘總是從內部攻破的。真正的對抗永遠不是發生在西方文明與其他文明之間，而是發生在西方正典與西方負典之間。如果西方永遠不屈服於自己的叛逆者，就永遠不會被他人擊敗。

Maybe it's time for us to unite behind not the sainthood but an anti-hero who could dust off the choking smog before our eyes and in our minds.

現在到了需要我們團結的時候了，我們可以團結在一個平凡的主角身後，他可以撥開那些長久遮蔽在我們眼前和頭腦中的令人窒息的煙霧——這就足夠了，而不一定要求他必須是一位聖徒。

The Islamic invasions of the West are consequences of the decline of the West rather than the causes of it. We don't fix Islam, let them kill each other off, let Russia bomb Aleppo. We didn't pay attention to tens of millions starved to death by Mao, why should we care about a few thousands killed by Al-Assad anyway. What needs to be fixed is the mentality at large in the West. Only that people are more sensitive to bloody consequences rather than the intricate mechanism behind them. 

伊斯蘭入侵西方是西方衰落的後果，而不是原因。我們不必修理伊斯蘭教，他們會互相攻伐，俄羅斯會轟炸阿勒頗。我們既然沒有關注過Mao治下數千萬的餓殍，為什麼還要關心阿薩德殺害的幾千人。我們真正需要治療的是西方的整體心態。只是因為人們對血腥的後果更敏感，卻不去關注它背後錯綜複雜的機理。

Trump may be poor at policies. But he dare say that the government is stupid and corrupt, not a solution per se, and political correctness is extremely poisonous to our political discourse, which are true. He has the right direction that Hillary doesn't have.

特朗普本人可能不善於制定政策。但他敢說：“政府等於愚蠢和腐敗，而不是解決方案本身”，“政治正確嚴重毒害着我們的政治討論”，這些都是大實話。他有着希拉里沒有的正確方向。

We have to kick start something needed for long and work on it in the following years with whatever we have and whatever we can do. The Renaissance was not planed, neither was the United States. Good presidents are not usually good scholars; George Washington was not a scholar, neither was Ronald Reagon, maybe with the only exception of Teddy Roosevelt. But a president is in command of an army of scholars with the corresponding mindset, and plans and tactics are made by those people. 

在接下來的幾年裡，無論我們有什麼，能做什麼，我們都必須開始着手準備那些長遠的未來會需要的東西。文藝復興本身並沒有計劃，美國的誕生也沒有。好的總統通常不是好的學者；喬治·華盛頓不是學者，羅納德·里根也不是，也許唯一的例外是泰迪·羅斯福。但是總統領導着一批擁有相應理念體系的學者，這些人制定了計劃和戰術。

Trump has successfully mobilized tens of millions people who are concerned with the future of this country. A pretty good kick start for a political outsider. Maybe together we could do something, like restoring the freedom of speech. 

特朗普成功動員了數千萬關心這個國家未來的人。這是一個政治局外人的良好開端。也許我們團結在一起可以做很多事情，例如恢復言論自由。

No one now has a clear road map of how to reverse the decline of the West. But I think the West at least deserves a death with struggles. You don't sit back and peacefully watch a Muslim or oligarch takeover.

現在沒有人擁有一個明確的路線圖，指導如何扭轉西方的衰落。但我認為西方至少值得為了理想而去戰鬥犧牲。請您不要作壁上觀，平靜地坐視穆斯林或寡頭接管這個世界。

We do not want to be imposed on with a breathe tax simply because some careerist nuts in the academia think this is better for the planet, neither do we want to be bombed to death by some very hairy 40 year-old terrorists who came to this country 3 months ago as children. Taxation and death are both inevitable, but taxation and death out of absurdity are something we try our best to avoid.

如果學術界的一些野心家堅持認為呼吸稅可以更好地保護地球，就要強加呼吸稅到我們每個人的頭上，這種事我們根本不會答應。我們也不想被一些毛茸茸的40歲恐怖分子炸死，這些人3個月前剛剛作為“孩子”來到這個國家。稅收和死亡都是不可避免的，但是荒唐的稅收和荒唐的死亡是我們應該盡最大努力避免的。

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