Given the degree to which this weekend’s events in Crimea seem to have caught the world off guard, I was curious to see if the Wikileaks cables contained any discussions by U.S. diplomats of a scenario like this one. Indeed, there is some now ominous foreshadowing to be found.
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Slate: Crimean foreshadowing
Russian soldiers are cementing their control over Crimea on March 2, three days after their armed forces entered Ukraine's peninsula.
