retrancher

Je veux mettre en garde contre une nouvelle doctrine internationale aux termes de laquelle le monde occidental se retrancherait derrière des boucliers et du matériel militaire de technologie coûteuse, en tournant le dos à ce milliard de personnes qui se battent pour leur survie quotidienne.
I want to warn against a new international doctrine according to which the western world, having turned its back on these one billion people fighting for their daily existence, withdraws behind barriers made up of weapon shields and expensive technological defence materiel.
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