big trouble in little crimea, page-6

Even more so than Syria, Russia is a HUGE Energy exporter so any financial sanctions by the West would lead to energy commodities heading sky high from the resultant supply restrictions.


Russia is ranked 3rd Globally in supply of Crude oil.

2013 Oil production:

Whilst with Gas supply they compete with the US between 1st and 2nd spot by a large margin over the rest of the world