Eff Russia— if she tries directly intervening, the bear will be biting off a lot more than it can chew.
Russia probably won’t intervene directly, but she will probably stoke unrest in Crimea and the South East to achieve an effective partition of Ukraine.
Russia can impose sanctions - closing the border, granting refuge to people from Crimea and the eastern Ukraine, raise the price of gas supplied to Ukraine and withdrawing the recent economic assistance package.
Russia’s leverage can bring the new regime in Kiev to its knees. The country is but a short step away from insolvency. Its new authorities have to work with Russia. Otherwise the consequences could be very unpleasant.
So, I gather you like the Eurocrats in Brussels with their politically correct agenda of unfettered immigration from Muslim lands, multiculturalism, denigration of Europe’s Christian heritage and Christian morals, pushing of the normalization of homosexuality, censorship of errant opinion by self-censorship in the newsroom and vilification, and continuation of the “social democrat” welfare state, better than Putin’s government with its 13% flat tax, support for Christian heritage and morals, and more overt censorship of opposing opinion.
I can see why folks in the Ukraine might not want to be under Russian control or too much Russian influence (well, leaving aide the Russians who live there because Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev moved the border between the old Imperial provinces to put lots of Russians inside the Ukrainan Soviet Socialist Republic), but why they want to be associated with the EU is a mystery to me.
Who's going to stop Russia if they do roll in?
0bama? the EU? Ukrainian armed forces?
How do you figure that?