Obama: Crimea referendum would be illegal

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Issuance of Ukraine-related Executive Order

I don't think this deserves it's own post - but my 'post title' was the subject of the treas.gov emails sent out to US businesses today that engage in import/export and that have BIS and OFAC functions. I think it's a good complement to what you've posted -

2014 Recent OFAC Actions landing page: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/OFAC-Recent-Actions.aspx

This is a direct link to the PDF - 3 Pages President Obama issued this a.m.
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/ukraine_eo.pdf

It's not naming names or anything (I think we are anticipating that later today) but it's making pretty clear we will take a trade and sanctions approach.

Any American citizen can sign up for those emails - but once you have experience navigating the Sec of Treasury and Sec of State instructions and updates from a commerce perspective you can read these and read in between the lines pretty clearly.

I'm liking an approach of 'play nice' we can't throw bombs in this - but we can prevent our telecoms and banks from doing business with you.