Clear-cut meddling? Mike Pompeo promises US will try to stop Corbyn from being elected

明目张胆的干涉？迈克•蓬佩奥承诺美国将努力阻止科尔宾当选英首相

来源：今日俄罗斯   翻译：世界播

It looks like that much-lauded “special relationship” between the UK and US is so special that the latter now appears to believe it should be offered a significant say in who leads the former.

看起来，英国和美国之间备受赞誉的“特殊关系”真的很特殊，以至于美国现在似乎认为，它应该在谁领导英国方面拥有重大发言权。

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been caught admitting that Washington will do its “level best” to prevent UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn from becoming Britain’s prime minister — but what’s a bit of meddling between special friends?

美国国务卿迈克•蓬佩奥日前承认，美国政府将“竭尽全力”阻止英国工党领袖杰里米•科尔宾成为英国首相。但特殊朋友之间有什么好干涉的呢？

In a recording leaked to the Washington Post, Pompeo told a gathering of Jewish leaders that a Corbyn premiership is a real possibility and that he could manage to “run the gauntlet and get elected” — something which the Trump administration seems to be dead set against.

一份泄露给《华盛顿邮报》的录音显示，蓬佩奥在一次闭门会议中对一群犹太领袖们表示，科尔宾有可能会想方设法地“完成挑战、战胜阻碍并最终当选”英国首相，而且很有可能会变成现实，但这似乎是特朗普政府坚决反对的前景。

Pompeo was apparently responding to claims of “anti-semitism” that have been levelled at the Labour leader. He promised that the US “won’t wait” until Corbyn is elected to “push back,” because things can get a little tricky once an election has already inconveniently taken place. “It’s too risky and too important and too hard [to interfere] once it’s already happened,” he said.

蓬佩奥显然是针对这位工党领袖的“反犹太主义”言论所进行的回应。他承诺，美国“不会等到”科尔宾当选后再“反击”，因为一旦选举完成，事情就会变得有点棘手和复杂。他表示：“一旦事情已成定局，要进行干预就太危险、影响太大、太困难了。”

Needless to say, the Labour Party didn’t take too kindly to Pompeo’s intervention, calling it an “entirely unacceptable interference in the UK’s democracy.” The Conservative Party has been notably quieter on the intrusion into British politics, which is odd, since Theresa May’s Tories are usually so quick to denounce foreign interference in the domestic affairs of other nations.

不出所料，英国工党对蓬佩奥的这番言论进行了猛烈抨击，称这是“对英国民主完全不可接受的干涉”。而英国保守党却在干涉英国政治问题上明显平静很多，这很奇怪，因为特雷萨•梅的保守党通常会对外国干涉他国内政的行为进行迅速而急切地谴责。

Top US officials offering advice and opining on Britain’s national politics has become somewhat normal in recent weeks, with even Trump himself admitting he found the left-wing Corbyn to be a “negative force” and announcing his strong preference for former foreign secretary Boris Johnson to take up the mantle after May’s departure.

最近几周，美国高级官员针对英国国内政治的建议和评论已变得越来越多，就连特朗普本人也承认，他发现左翼科尔宾是一股“负面力量”，于是他对外宣称，他更加倾向于看到前外交部长鲍里斯•约翰逊在梅离职后接任这一首相职位。

The leaked comments ignited a storm of criticism across social media, with many pointing out the irony of the US intervening in UK politics, despite constantly warning against so-called Russian interference in other parts of the world.

（蓬佩奥）被曝光的言论在社交媒体上引发了一场批评风暴，许多人指出，尽管美国不断警告称，俄罗斯在干预世界其他国家的内政，但美国现在却对英国政治大加干预，这也太过具有讽刺意味了。

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