Within 24 hours of this happening Katie Hopkins posted vile remarks on Twitter about how long the people of Scotland live for.
"Something big is happening here.
What's surprising is how quickly it's happening.
More than that, Levin also implicitly suggested that there was something wrong per se with betting that the housing market would crash, suggesting that while it's good to make money from good things happening, it's nefarious to put yourself in a position to make money when bad things happen.
And while the Yale economist Robert Shiller has long advocated using markets to help individuals protect themselves against things like declining house prices or future unemployment, the chances of that happening now seem smaller than ever.
A November report by a British thinktank noted a rise in close military encounters between Russia and the west this year, including "violations of national airspace, emergency scrambles, narrowly avoided mid-air collisions, close encounters at sea, simulated attack runs and other dangerous actions happening on a regular basis over a very wide geographical area".
"But I didn't understand a thing [about what was happening]." Federico Marchetti (Lazio); Hugo Campagnaro (Napoli), Andrea Barzagli (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus); Alessio Cerci (Torino), Borja Valero (Fiorentina), Arturo Vidal (Juventus), Erik Lamela (Roma); Marek Hamsik (Napoli), Francesco Totti (Roma); Edinson Cavani (Napoli).
"If there had been inquests in world war one, they'd still be happening," says one former defence minister.
The Maidan protesters were heroes, but the true fight – the fight for what the new Ukraine will be – is happening now, and it will be much tougher than the fight against Putin's intervention.
