-Television pictures of revolutions can make them seem like a spectator sport.-Having Vitali Klitschko, the world heavyweight boxing champion, playing a starring role in the events in Kiev reinforces that impression.
-But the implosion of the Ukrainian state in the last 48 hours is a political earthquake.
-Chaos in Kiev could set off a tsunami that will toss Western Europe from its moorings too."
"It is a mistake to think we are watching from a safe distance.
Maybe Ukraine is as foreign to the British people today as it was when an obscure crisis on its southern coast in Queen Victoria’s reign became the Crimean War.
But not since the 1850s has this country (England) come so close to colliding with Russia.
Ukraine sits on the fault line dividing Eastern Europe between pro-Western and pro-Russian views.
Her people are split over attitudes to the old imperial capital, Moscow."
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