Agree with much of WR Mead's take on Ukraine - no way Moscow hadn't planned on possibility of something like this happening and therefore the response is no doubt in the pipeline - and there's a strong likelihood that Putin will see this as another opportunity to make Obama and the EU look weak and ineffectual - by answering a staged call for help from Yanukovich to undo an illegal coup [less likely I think] or by moving to partition the country while keeping the key ports in the south under Russian control [more likely I think] Putin can really force Obama and his merry band of incompetents into making some dire decisions the type of which they've already amply shown they don't have the stomach or strategic sense for. Next couple of weeks should prove interesting.
