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rfmcdonald- At Pando, veteran journalist Mark Ames has an article ("Everything you know about Ukraine is wrong") arguing, from a generally pro-Maidan perspective, about the ongoing issues in Ukrainian (it's a contest between factions backed by different oligarchies, fascism isn't especially a Ukrainian issue, et cetera).
- The Atlantic's William Schreiber writes in "The Hidden Costs of a Russian Statelet in Ukraine" about the economic costs of a protracted Russian occupation of Crimea. In other regions, like Abkhazia and Transnistria, Russia has found itself spending billions of dollars to prop up local economies. Crimea, with two million people, is much bigger than all of these unrecognized states combined.
- Via Jussi Jalonen on Facebook, I found an Andrew Wilson Guardian article suggesting that Crimean Tatars are starting to mobilize against Russia. Crimean Tatars have, post-1991, strongly opposed Russian influence; militias are reportedly starting to form.
- MacLean's shares an Associated Press article suggesting that, if the European Union and Russia applied sanctions against each other, the effects could be significant. Russia, which depends on the EU as its major export market, would be hit disproportionately, but the European Union would also have to find alternate sources of gas.
