by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

If you’re one of the fools cheering on the internal unrest in Russia please raise your hand.

I want to know who you are if the very-possible outcome of that occurs and so will a lot of other people who are going to be extremely hungry and since there will be no law enforcement worth anything nor anything approaching a “government” if it happens, well, I think you can figure the rest out on your own.

You can look at Putin as whatever you’d like but the fact of the matter is that this is a nation with thousands of nuclear weapons and, whatever your view of Putin is, he is one of the more-moderate members of the government in Russia.

If he is deposed by force or worse, there’s a no-BS civil war that occurs over there who knows what comes out of that.  The odds that it will be “more-friendly” to the United States than what we have now, never mind NATO, are very poor, and what’s worse is that both we and all the other NATO nations are likely interfering in a covert manner and everyone involved over there in this thing knows it.