Russia’s CBR Attacks First

You will do that....we will do that....
in the end money Rules not tanks....

Among the stupid things Kruschoff did was to give the Crimea to the Ukraine in an effort to unify the soviet. Once the Russians have taken this gift back and the dust settles, everyone will realize how artificial the whole thing was. The Ukrainians, once they realize they themselves are not at risk, will learn to live at peace with this. Will Russia continue to enjoy influence over them? How can they not. A prosperous peaceful Russia means a prosperous peaceful Ukraine:
They will enjoy increase commerce with the ECC, and through them, Russia. The Crimea was a semi-independent part of the Ukraine as it was. The only reason for Ukraine to want to keep the Crimea is egoistic greed. Let the Ukrainians live in safety. Let Crimea preserve its Russian heritage. There has been enough blood shed in the past over this region. Are we to add our blood to it because of fictional notions?
Almost any move any state makes has somewhere, somehow, tragic costs.
An engineer, calculating the costs of building a great bridge, estimates how many live will be lost in doing so. Yet the bridge gets built.

Putin is not Hitler. No karateka can be all bad!

markets are the globes brain

The reason for the both RUB and Russia's stocks plummeting is because investors are pulling their money out, afraid that things might go worse and they won't be able to get their money back at all.

If and when the situation normalizes, which can take time, the stocks will be back at where they were, in case world economy doesn't collapse (S&P is already very high)