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| Image: Independence Square, Kiev, Ukraine - Credit: Sasha Maksymenko License: CC BY 2.0 |
Russia’s military intervention in the Crimea and perhaps
more widely in the Ukraine will have longstanding consequences for government
in Britain, and the impacts will be felt far beyond the Foreign Office and the
diplomatic service. Six implications for British government are immediately
obvious. In order from the shortest to the longest terms, six implications of
the Russian occupation of the Crimea can immediately be identified for British
government having to do loans, distractions, gilts, gas, missiles and boots and
finally containers and pipes.
