title: West wasting breath huffing and puffing over Crimea
abstract: This week's Crimean crisis is more than a storm in a teacup, but it won't threaten world peace. In a tense and diplomatically fascinating week, Russian, US and EU statements have so far been carefully measured to stay well short of any danger zone, and Putin's de facto re-incorporation of Crimea back into Russia is now pretty much complete. The new Ukrainian government and its Western supporters will huff and puff, but they can forget about Crimea: it is Russian again now.
journal: Eureka street