Originally Posted by
ringthree
IMF, WB, EU and US have already pledged to cover anything they need.
It's weird right now, but you can't run the Ukraine from Russia. Russia will saber-rattle for while, but won't do anything. The Ukraine is not Georgia. I don't see a civil war or anything like that in the future, but lets see where this goes.
While there are many, many downward pressures on an actual conflict ever erupting (economics, location, the way the gov't collapsed, etc), this is one of the few places in the world that would put all of the western nations in direct conflicting interest with Russia on a global scale. That said if the Ukraine breaks free from Russia and goes western, this could force Russias to stop being the huge global douche they have been recently because they would no longer have a buffer with the Ukraine and could lose access to the Crimea. Putin has to play this very very carefully and he has very few cards in his hand in this situation.