@praet0rian
Turkey is very much afraid, with damned good reason. If Putin gained control of bothe Kyiv AND more particularly, Odesa on top of already holding Crimea--the Black Sea would pretty much belong exclusively to Putin & Russian military/gas+oil...
Russian gas & oil is inextricably well tied to Saudi via the Aramco/Rosneft partnerships.
the only way between the Black Sea and the Med is...
oh. shit.