The news from the East, in recent weeks, has not been conducive to steadiness in world stock-markets. There is nothing like political upheaval to give investors the jitters – especially when those jitters involve a nation the size of Russia – and markets dropped by a few percent almost as soon as the news broke. Whilst I would be the first to admit that I do not know the finer details of the issues that currently haunt Crimea, I do know that when a country with a history of favouring the fist and the jack-boot over the art of negotiation, feels that there are sufficient grounds for sending troops into another country’s territory, then there will be every chance of Western world leaders raising an eyebrow, and cocking an ear.
The Whistler 